Published Author Quotes

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

There's still, even now, a part of me that can't believe that I got published. That part of me has never gone away.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

The first time I shopped at a comic shop, it was because I had been published in a comic book. As I became more involved in comics, I started going more and more, usually to support my friends or lady-friendly comics.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

I never set out to be a published writer.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.