I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.
Having my novels published is a dream come true.
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
I'm a writer and I've had some success.
I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
The real bombs are my books, not me.
The only things I make money on are speeches and books.
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.
John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.
A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.
You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
