Beginning Quotes

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

In the beginning there was symmetry.

There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointments.

The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning; since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination, and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

It takes an enormous act of violence to begin something. I can’t begin. I simply jump over what should be the beginning. [Es ist eine ungeheuere Gewaltsamkeit, etwas anzufangen. Ich kann nicht anfangen. Ich springe einfach über das, was Anfang sein müßte, weg.]