Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

I can't believe I actually wrote a book.

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.