Early Quote by Alice Munro

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

— George Saunders

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

— Candace Bushnell

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated…

— Wilbur Smith

I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince…

— David Sedaris

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs.…

— Jess Walter

I have written stories since I was a child.

— Rachel Joyce

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

— David Grann

Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got…

— David Bergen

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky