Cold Quote by Susan Sontag

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on…

— Anonymous

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

— Stewart O'Nan

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

— Anne Lamott

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world…

— Nell Scovell

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will…

— Ronee Blakley

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

— Gail Carson Levine

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

— Anonymous

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

— A. B. Yehoshua

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the…

— Jodi Picoult

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang