Books Quote by Caroline Leavitt

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

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

One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised…

— Ellen Potter

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who…

— David Eddings

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've…

— Ken Liu

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

— Scott Turow

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another…

— George R. R. Martin

I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don't believe me, you can come into my basement; I'll show you every copy.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the…

— Chang-Rae Lee