America Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

— Beth Revis

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

— Jim Rash

When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when I got…

— Arlo Parks

The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech.…

— W. S. Merwin

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

— Tony Gilroy

When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out…

— Richard K. Morgan

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you…

— Michelle J. Howard

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri