Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.