First Quote by Joe R. Lansdale Download Open image “I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.” — Joe R. Lansdale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare First Sold Story
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings. — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“He decided quite suddenly, having kept fairly good record on the calendar, that tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and zombies be damned. The Christmas lights… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe the good… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“Killing ain’t no good thing, son, unless it’s to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My grandmother on my mother's side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a little… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
