Because Quote by Donald McKay Download Open image “My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.” — Donald McKay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Because Books Complete First Got Life Novel Took Way Years
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a… — Michael Koryta Copy Share
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only. — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes. — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
