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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. -- Nathalie Sarraute
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. -- Fred Brooks
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest. -- Nancy Horan
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction. -- Ian Rankin
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers. -- Joanna Southcott
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. -- Clifford Geertz
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end. -- Lee Child
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. -- John Barton
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. -- Rudy Rucker
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back. -- Maggie Smith
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. -- Raymond Carver
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. -- Stephen King
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. -- Barry Levinson
I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.' -- Joss Whedon
I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries. -- Alan Furst
Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen. -- Charlie Day
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. -- Tracy Kidder
Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end. -- David Labrava
I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going. -- Nick Woodman
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language. -- Patricia MacLachlan
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft. -- Richard Greenberg
Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about. -- Kit Reed
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done -- Clifford Geertz
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. -- Jeet Thayil
Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning. -- Alexander Zalan
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically. -- Liza Campbell
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in. -- Chevy Stevens
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. -- Raymond Carver
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band. -- Christopher Owens
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be. -- Wiz Khalifa
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question. -- Adam Kirsch
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. -- Fitzhugh Dodson
I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it. -- Tracy Chapman
Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning. -- Lucy Prebble
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me. -- Jean M. Auel
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. -- Samuel Beckett

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