Anthology Quote by David Bergen

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated…

— Wilbur Smith

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending…

— Donna Leon

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

— T. J. Thyne

I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I'm sure that I will always be a writer. It…

— J K Rowling

'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in…

— Alice Munro

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is…

— Donna Tartt

I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

— Michael Connelly

I never let myself forget that I'm really lucky in my work to be able to discover so many people and places, and to…

— Lenny Henry

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,…

— Amor Towles

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

— Chauncey Depew

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

— Laura van den Berg