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3. “Everyone had different beginnings. Different temperaments of parents. Totally different interests and hobbies. Different ways parents perceived success. Different teachers who taught you to fit in. And you expect yourself to outsmart someone else.”
Ankur Warikoo
Individuality, Beginnings, Comparison, Expectations, Reality
9. “It had all begun, very precisely, he told his mind, on the morning of the 28th of January 1936, at Arkhangelsk railway station. No, his mind responded, nothing begins just like that, on a certain date at a certain place. It all began in many places, and at many times, some even before you were born, in foreign countries, and in the minds of others.” Julian Barnes Beginnings, History, Perspective, Memory, Time
23. “So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it’s the hardest to do anything with. That’s about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.” Margaret Atwood Beginnings, Endings, Plots, Storytelling, Narrative Structure
28. “Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn’t have a lot of thematic or political baggage – a little crumb that is interesting.” George Saunders Writing, Beginnings, Small Details, Creative Process, Triviality
Beginnings Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “Everyone had different beginnings. Different temperaments of parents. Totally different interests and hobbies. Different ways parents perceived success. Different teachers who taught you to fit in. And you expect yourself to outsmart someone else.”
Ankur Warikoo Individuality, Beginnings, Comparison, Expectations, Reality
9. “It had all begun, very precisely, he told his mind, on the morning of the 28th of January 1936, at Arkhangelsk railway station. No, his mind responded, nothing begins just like that, on a certain date at a certain place. It all began in many places, and at many times, some even before you were born, in foreign countries, and in the minds of others.”
Julian Barnes Beginnings, History, Perspective, Memory, Time
23. “So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it’s the hardest to do anything with. That’s about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.”
Margaret Atwood Beginnings, Endings, Plots, Storytelling, Narrative Structure
28. “Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn’t have a lot of thematic or political baggage – a little crumb that is interesting.”
George Saunders Writing, Beginnings, Small Details, Creative Process, Triviality
