Actually Quote by Clara Mamet

We're close friends [with Brandy Burre]. We're neighbors. I actually lived two houses over from her for a while and then we were traveling…

— Robert Greene

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

There's still, even now, a part of me that can't believe that I got published. That part of me has never gone away.

— Kate DiCamillo

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been…

— Sara Sheridan

I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when…

— Odeya Rush

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don't turn out the way you wanted them to because…

— Stephen King

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they…

— Sefi Atta

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

— Dominick Dunne

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can we look…

— Paul Barnes

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Anonymous