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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Irvine Welsh

Music

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

H. G. Wells

First

Acting is my first love.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

Change

First

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

Adam Weishaupt

First

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

Len Wein

First

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.