Books Quote by Helen Fielding

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 got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little…

— Helen Fielding

I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an…

— Allan Loeb

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying…

— Tess Gerritsen

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler

“The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's great unpublished…

— Dave Gibbons

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

— Colin Firth

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

— Helen Fielding

In terms of Bridget [Jones] I honestly don't know. One thing I can say for sure is that all of these stories have been…

— Helen Fielding

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

— Patton Oswalt

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

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