Business Quote by Robert J. Shiller

A publication depends on a great idea, not there being a market out there. You start with an idea rather than trying to get…

— Andrew Heiskell

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got…

— Steve Rushin

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

— Jean Giraud

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it…

— Joanna Coles

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew…

— Lydia Davis

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and I have…

— Garth Nix