Book Quote by Garrison Keillor

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang…

— Jessye Norman

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I…

— Tim Winton

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed…

— Amy Purdy

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an…

— Caleb Carr