Beginning Quote by Leigh Bardugo

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

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I…

— Leigh Bardugo

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything…

— Jonathan Coe

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, but I had no talent for finishing books. I would start them,…

— Leigh Bardugo