Books Quote by Sharon Creech

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

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

— Erica Jong

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I…

— Jose Saramago

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to…

— Tom Glazer

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted…

— Candace Bushnell

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt