Best Quote by Amor Towles

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them…

— Sigrid Undset

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked…

— Orhan Pamuk

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

— John Boyne

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

— Sophie Kinsella

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan