Any Quote by Kresley Cole

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard…

— Sandra Brown

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

— Jonathan Weeks

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

— Tomi Adeyemi

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why…

— Anita Pallenberg

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell