What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.

— Eudora Welty

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

— G.K. Chesterton

When did the world begin and how?" I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:"What's it all about and why?" I asked a hog as he went by:"Where will the whole thing end, and when?" I asked a duck, a goose, a hen:And I copied all the answers too, A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo.

— Robert Clairmont

When I was up there, stranded by myself, did I think I was going to die? Yes. Absolutely, and that’s what you need to know going in because it’s going to happen to you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point everything is going to go south on you. Everything is going to go south, and you’re going to say 'This is it. This is how I end.' Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem. Then you solve the next one, and then the next and if you solve enough problems you get to come home.

— Andy Weir

Winners were not born winners; they learned and practiced how to win, and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate" until something happened... an breakthrough became evident!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Woman--another word for beginning. Another word for revolution. Another word for healing. Another word for being. Another word for me.

— AVA.

Woman-another word for beginning. Another word for revolution. Another word for healing. Another word for being. Another word for me.

— Ava

Worry motif you are in darkness and the void sucks you in further. This is not the place we go to die. It’s where we are born and our stories begin.

— Kamand Kojouri

Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

— James Lee Burke

You are the mark on my liquid heart where love begins with the beginning’s start You are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liars From the poem- A Letter to My Love

— Munia Khan