Cringe Quote by Ben Fountain

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

— Elizabeth Crook

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

— Bill Cosby

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

— Celeste Ng

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.…

— Richard K. Morgan

It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

— Katie Kitamura

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

— Eudora Welty

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

— Ray Bradbury

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

— Nigel Kneale