Quotes About Starting To Write

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

Robert B. Parker

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

Kristin Hunter

#3. I think I see my life already starting to write on my next decision the adventures of a loneliness which for the first time in years can stand being alone again.

Angelos Michalopoulos

#4. 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

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

Howard Nemerov

#6. 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

#7. I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.

Tom Drury

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Andrew Motion

#12. I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

Martha Wells

#13. Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. My blackness is spreading, Alice. I've been seeing and hearing things that can't be there or anywhere. At night, when I'm not hallucinating mad women, I can feel depression starting to burn me around the edges. If I sink into it, I'll have to give this thing up and write a novel.

Hanif Kureishi

#15. When I write my scripts, there's a point at which if I'm not starting to see them visually, I feel like I'm kind of cheating. So my scripts are laden with a lot of visual description, which makes them not so much fun to read - I kind of weigh them down.

Todd Haynes

#16. I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

Daniel Pinkwater

#17. That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.

Toni Sorenson

#18. You should write a novel." "Me? Write a novel?" "Well, you do read a lot of them." "And you eat a lot of candy bars, but I don't see you running out to hire a bunch of Oompa-Loompas and starting a chocolate factory.

Tammy Blackwell

#19. You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

Jeff Lemire

#20. I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

Marian Keyes

#21. If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#22. I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

Adam Schlesinger

#23. When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Elizabeth Moon

#24. Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

Felix Mendelssohn

#25. I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Erica Jong

#26. Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

Ann Brashares

#27. I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.

Sarah Mlynowski

#28. When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.

Eric Hutchinson

#29. I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Jesse Eisenberg

#30. I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

Pete Seeger

#31. My hands were starting to shake a little. Because I hadn't known that I knew these things. Just having a notebook to write them in, and having someone to write them to, made them all rise to the surface.

Rachel Cohn

#32. Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Ernest Hemingway,

#33. I used to write songs that were deeply personal, but since I am becoming so passionate about the world around me, that passion and drive is starting to come into my work.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#34. I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

Neil Gaiman

#35. I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

Jewel

#36. Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Len Deighton

#37. I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Elmore Leonard

#38. To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

Edward Albee

#39. I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry."
"Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

Chris D'Lacey

#40. Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

Damon Galgut

#41. I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

Umberto Eco

#42. Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

Dan Mangan