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“I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.”

People Men Feels Wells Looks Art Wanted Artist Differences Wonder Car Ordinary Photographer Wrecks Ordinary Things

Author:Walker Evans

“I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”

“I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.”

Fun Forget Audience Stage Having Fun Never Forget

Author:Aaliyah

“I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.”

Writing Kind Littles Hours Written Theme Waltz

Author:Maurice Jarre

“I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.”

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”

Thinking Way Writing Character Fiction Vision Enemy Novel Structure Setting Familiar Settings Assumption Theme Plot Abandoned Way Of Thinking Totality All That Remains

Author:John Hawkes

Source: A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris

“I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Wanted Courses Expected Little Things

Author:William Saroyan

Source: One day in the afternoon of the world

“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

Writing Years Self Body Able Fall My Own Poet Materials Return Falling In Love Details Sensual Alienation Try Again Raw Materials Another Woman Living Fully Details Of Life

Author:Minnie Bruce Pratt

“I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.”

Writing Years Four Four Years Writing Poetry

Author:Ernesto Cardenal

“I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.”

Writing Rooms Novel Pieces

Author:Angela Cartwright

“I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.”

Ifs Writing Kind Pieces Rhythm Verses Schemes Formal Free Verse Libre

Author:Richard Aldington

“I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.”

Knows Writing Has Beens Stills Two Book Thousand Pages Seven

Author:William Golding

“I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.”

Writing Sometimes Stories Three Careers Knowing Four Paid Magazines Editors Quarters Cents Pseudonyms

Author:Ed McBain

“I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.”

Firsts Lost Cities Novel Prison Radio Visiting Peru

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.”

Knows Writing Years Persons Long Stills Character Problem Sex Voice Fantasy Journey Down And Tables Eight Solve Sat Detectives Writing Voice

Author:Sara Paretsky

“I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.”

Young Asks Identity Meetings Lawyer Coffee Ask Me Hats Sunglasses Meeting Someone

Author:Bella Abzug

“I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.”

People Children Littles Has Beens Bigs Passion Born Grew Grew Up Horse Village

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.”

Play Church Modern Rocks Band Jazz Musical Theatre Ballet Choir Rock Bands Clarinet Musical Theatre Church Choir

Author:Samantha Barks

“I began with track and field because this is what I know.”

Knows Fields Track Track And Field

Author:Sergei Bubka

“I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?”

Thinking Knows Writing Years Mind Character Wanted Found Wonder Personality Birth Cancer Illness Biographies

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.”

People Knows Writing Believe Heart Hard Young Laughing Growing Strive Being True Mature Making People Laugh

Author:Bill Hicks

“I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since - I've never stopped”

Inspiration Cameras Kodak

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.”

Wells Country Helping Earth Found Organization Other Countries Here And There Institute

Author:David R. Brower

“I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.”

People Knows Wanted Artist Asks Streets Havens New York University Studios Museums Graduates Yale Harlem Residence Yale University

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.”

Writing Years Novel Agents Spares Publishers Manuscripts Spare Time Matterhorn

Author:Karl Marlantes

“I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.”

Writing Book States Moving Felt United United States Moving On Writing A Book Moved On Moving Away Away From Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.”

Writing Children Home Care Wanted Hurt Accidents Recovery My Children Coming Home Day Care

Author:Leslie Banks

“I began writing as an experimental writer.”

Writing

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16. And have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.”

Writing Ideas Age Wanted Dark Periods No Idea

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Years I Can Book Reading Interest Realizing Interesting Company Written Subjects Jokes Smarter Writing A Book

Author:Brian Tracy

“I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.”

Writing Art Said Play Moments Stories School Involved Radio Selling Short Story Definite Essays Festivals School Plays Writing Short Writing Short Stories

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.”

“I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.”

Writing Doe Sometimes Film Theater

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.”

Writing Matter Play Facts School America Discovery Grades Matter Of Fact Discovery Of America

Author:Christopher Darden

“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.”

Writing Money Writers On Writing Writing Process

Author:M.V. Carey

“I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.”

Writing Writing Poetry

Author:Jonas Mekas

“I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.”

Writing Firsts Book Publish

Author:Kent Haruf

“I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?”

Writing Song Father Felt Loss Wonder Middle Months Cold Following Disappearance Old Song

Author:Linn Ullmann

“I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.”

Thinking Writing Night Perfect Fantastic Mentality Date Night

Author:Joe Jonas

“I began yoga to move my body but I didn’t know that was only the hook. On the mat, I have used my body not only to discover new shapes and poses, but I have found that in the poses I have discovered me. It is my eyes that now see new shapes— perspective clear and shifted. And my soul that has risen up and called to me. The truth of who I am is unfolding. I have stepped through the back door of my heart, to the place that meets my soul. I rest in my true nature. —yoga changes everything”

Yoga Mind Body Spirit Yoga Inspiration Yoga Practice Yoga Quotes Yoga Heartsongs

Author:Ashley Asti

“I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.”

Diversity Cuban World Politics Right To Speak

Author:Kelly J. Cogswell

Source: Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger

“I begged for help once. It never came. So I learned to become the help.”

Inspirational Inspirational Quotes Fantasy Bravery Fantasy Series Bravery Quotes Fantasy Quotes Dark Fantasy Series Grimdark Series

Author:J.L. Coulbeck

Source: The Witch Hunter's Lie

“I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a genius and just a lovely soul, and I wanted her voice on it. And she agreed, which is just the coolest thing, ever. She knocked it out of the park.”

Thinking Writing Said Soul Wanted Song Voice Fans Huge Genius Lovely Parks

Author:Jenji Kohan

“I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to duck.”

“I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.”

Wanted Crazy Mom Amount Basketball Beats Machines My Mom Camps

Author:J. Cole

“I begged my mom to let me start skating.”

Mom Let Me My Mom Skating

Author:Debi Thomas

“I begged myself to turn around. But I didn't. I was never one to listen to the voice of reason. Where's the fun in that?”

Love Quotes Betrayal Dumb Love Moves

Author:B.N. Toler

Source: Where One Goes

“I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.”

Kind Book Ideas Character Poetic Imagery

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.”

Ideas Would Be Rooms Rain Flow Metaphor Corners Sentences Sentiments Charming Illustration

Author:Jane Austen

Source: Jane Austen The Dover Reader

“I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.”

Ends Prayer Meditation Grateful Each Day I Am Grateful

Author:Nathan East

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