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"I often don't begin a piece until the text is done.
It might seem strange to begin a piece about Sudan with an American-sourced quote uttered in relation to an American experience.
If they begin a piece of work and think they could try something more difficult, or need something easier, they can change.
He tends to begin a piece of fiction with only a title or an opening image (in this case he had both) and then just sits at his desk, morning after morning, improvising until it's done.
It is customary to begin a piece on taramasalata by lamenting "the enormous damage" done to its reputation by "the sweet, artificially coloured gloop sold under that name in supermarkets", as the River Cottage Fish Book has it.
At the end of summer, 1966, I lay down on it for nearly two weeks, staring up into branches and leaves, fighting fear and panic, because I had no idea where or how to begin a piece of writing for The New Yorker.
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Typically, he begins a piece slowly, on a long-held note or chord.
In 2004, I began a piece on the Sort — the vast, robotic, multilevel maze in Louisville, Kentucky, where UPS absorbs, shuffles, and redirects a million packages a day.
This month the New Statesman television critic, Rachel Cooke, began a piece with that very question, "Whither Newsnight?", ahead of a damning assessment of the show's future.
"I want to do nothing chic," he wrote from Rome, "I want to have ideas before beginning a piece, and that is not how I worked in Paris".
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