Book Quote by Michael Korda

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of…

— Jerry Stahl

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to…

— Lev Grossman

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

— Philip Roth

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

— Natalie Goldberg

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

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 had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM,…

— Susie Bright

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

— Tanith Lee