Advise Quote by Michelle Tea

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

— Sarah Waters

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel,…

— Mary Kay Andrews

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

— Richard Curtis

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad.…

— James Frey

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

— Frederick Busch

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel