Book Quote by Sara Zarr

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

— Helen Fielding

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

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 novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it…

— Lisa Alther

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata