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Quotable 486

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
– E. L. Doctorow

The continually reassuring thing is that we’re all novices when we start a new work.
– Alice McDermott

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
– Kazuo Ishiguro

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
– Jack London

When I start I am in a total limbo. I don’t have any idea where the story is going or what is going to happen.
– Isabel Allende

You don’t know what you’re going to write until you start, and you can’t start until you know.
– Tom Stoppard