“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”

“I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.”

“For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.”

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”

“It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning…”

“In fact, this infinitesimally spread-out consciousness is a direct feeling of its contents as spread out. In an infinitesimal interval we directly perceive the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle, and end… Now upon this interval follows another, whose beginning is the middle of the former, and whose middle is the end of the former. Here we have an immediate perception of the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle and end, or say, of the second, third, and fourth instants.”