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I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything…

— Richard K. Morgan

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the…

— Tom Perrotta

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing…

— Geoff Dyer

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a…

— Michelle Dean

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting…

— Stephen King

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional…

— Ian Rankin

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken…

— Anthony Holden

I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent…

— Robert Sapolsky

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window…

— Jan Clausen