I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“For my father John Standish Fforde 1920-2000 Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless--and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it… — John Hull Copy Share Image
Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
In 2008, 'Surfer's Journal' published 'The Next Wave' image with an article. — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30. — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
