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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance again.
I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.
If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
I wrote 'Time Stops at Shamli' in 1956, shortly after 'The Room on the Roof' was published, and I couldn't find anyone to publish it.
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was going to be published.
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
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.
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four years before being published.
The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.
As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!