Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Maria Semple

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Tullian Tchividjian

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

Robert Rodriguez

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

Rod Stewart

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Zayn Malik

I just wanted somebody to tell me that I could sing.

William Least Heat-Moon

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Rick Springfield

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always

Sam Walton

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

Ma Jun

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

John Van Hamersveld

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Alan Garner

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.