Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents.

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging.

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.