After Quote by Tess Gerritsen

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be…

— Tess Gerritsen

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

My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell my novels…

— Justine Larbalestier

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest…

— Daniel Handler

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the…

— Dan Chaon

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

— George Barr McCutcheon

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler