Books Quote by Dacia Maraini

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

— Neil Gaiman

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you…

— Bob Shacochis

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you…

— Neil Gaiman

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in…

— Steven Pressfield

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who…

— Frederick Busch

We all want to make money and have a good life. But if your passion is writing, and you want to write a novel,…

— Salim Akil