"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

Beginning, End

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"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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H. G. Wells, English Author

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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"The past is but the past of a beginning."

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

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"Everything started as nothing."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

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"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."

Expression

"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."

Father

"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."

Music

"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."

Word

"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it."

Care

"We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it."

Help

"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."

Love

"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."

Time

"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."

Music

"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing."

Men