Books Quote by Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I was a terrible writer at first.

— Gabby Barrett

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

— Anonymous

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

“The worst book I’ve ever read is “Ulysses,” by Joyce, because like my undergraduate college degree, that’s nine and a half years of my…

— Jarod Kintz

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn