Began Quote by William Nicholson Download Open image “When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.” — William Nicholson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Began Books Chosen Form Novel Now Seriously Write Writing Years Years ago
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
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I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
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At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the… — William Nicholson Copy Share
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful, Eddy. It was perfect.' 'No,' he says. 'But it will be.” — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
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I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
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