Bits Quote by David B. Coe

I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another…

— Lights

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

— Christopher Paolini

I had been writing professionally since 1988

— Laura Hillenbrand

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

— Neil Gaiman

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but…

— Grace Lin

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools,…

— Alice Hoffman