Starting To Write Quotes

• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  Stephen King

  Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

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

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Effort, Needs

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.25, Anchor

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• I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."

  Gerard Way

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

  Matthew Healy

  Reading, Writing, Creative

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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• I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.

  Danielle Bradbery

  Song, Writing, Starting

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• I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

  Alan Garner

  Writing, Stories, Research

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• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Play, Ideas

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, February 1, 2011.

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• Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

  Kristin Hunter

  Writing, Starting, Harder

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• If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.

  Judith Barrington

  Fall, Teaching, Writing

  Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”

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• I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Two, Tea

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• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

  Howard Nemerov

  Writing, Literature, Yeats

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• When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

  James Franco

  Writing, Careers, People

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• That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like if you don't agree with somebody, you probably aren't going to like their jokes. I think comedians are starting to write for their audience and not towards the country.

  Michael Che

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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