Direct Quote by Richard K. Morgan

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

— Jackie French

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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'd never been published when I was young.

— Jack Vance

My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.

— Harshvardhan Rane

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of…

— Jonathan Raban

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that…

— Colson Whitehead

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole…

— Cheryl Mendelson

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.

— Quentin S. Crisp

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami