Beginning

Famous quotes containing the word beginning:

    “The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance—due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author’s attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful—and possibly the only—help that can be given.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    “The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people’s.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)