Sarah Dessen Quotes

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Everything starts from a dot.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

To begin, at the beginning.

The beginning is half of the whole.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

Be an empty page, untouched by words.

Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going.

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings