Beginning Quote by Paul Auster

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my…

— Beverly Cleary

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start…

— Kami Garcia

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash…

— Robert Crais

That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a…

— Michael Jackson

“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read. However,”

— Charles Van Doren

I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say,…

— Irvine Welsh

I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all…

— Janet Fitch

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is…

— Elie Wiesel

“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.”

— Charles Lamb

That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own…

— Laurence Sterne

If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

— Chris Pavone

“[O]f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way…

— Laurence Sterne