"I worked in Hollywood as a reader and……" — Sidney Sheldon

More First Story Quotes

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• Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen… — Harlan Coben
• Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to… — Thucydides
• I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky
• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character… — Donald Miller
• I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it… — Denis Johnson
• I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. — Jhumpa Lahiri
• I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed… — John Grisham
• My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every… — Phil Foglio
• I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won… — Ian Rankin
• I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine. — Jean Giraud
• I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the… — Amy Hempel
• The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one… — Paul Kane

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