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When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end. -- Jim Rash
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures. -- Giles Foden
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. -- A. B. Yehoshua
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes. -- Steve Earle
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film. -- Amy Lee
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching. -- Tony Gilroy
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. -- C. S. Forester
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. -- Rich Cohen
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. -- Bernard Cornwell
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. -- Rose Tremain
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. -- Nicole Krauss
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. -- Patrick White
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes. -- Richard Price
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. -- Jonathan Franzen
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating. -- Kami Garcia
I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car. -- Jewel
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience. -- Lois Lowry
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 always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part. -- Mavis Gallant
An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing. -- Phil Vischer
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. -- Ellen Goodman
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising. -- St. Lucia
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. -- Richard Price
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. -- Ann Patchett
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. -- Phyllis A. Whitney
I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware. -- Yukimi Nagano
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot. -- Seamus Heaney
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. -- Joan Larkin
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning. -- Brian Morton
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always. -- Nicholas Sparks
I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake. -- Darryl Pinckney
In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically. -- Robert Towne

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