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Starting To Write Quotes

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. David Simon
I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed. Kathryn Stockett
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. Norton Juster
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. Joan Didion
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. Thom Gunn
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. David Crosby
Jim Capaldi quote: "But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked..."
But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. Jim Capaldi
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. Jose Saramago
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life. Gwen Stefani
Judy Blume quote: "What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't..."
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. Judy Blume
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. John McGahern
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer? It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings. Stanley Kunitz
Haruki Murakami quote: "When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just..."
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. Haruki Murakami
David Antin quote: "I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to..."
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. David Antin
Andrew Motion quote: "I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and..."
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. Andrew Motion

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