About Quote by James Rollins

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to…

— Kate Atkinson

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

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

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually…

— Debra Dean

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before…

— Philipp Meyer

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata