Book Quote by Gail Carson Levine

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books that I…

— Virginia Henley

Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print…

— Bob Colacello

When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of…

— John Lescroart

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine…

— Emma Healey

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it…

— Lisa Alther

I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…

— Lucie Brock-Broido