Samantha Harvey Quotes

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.

There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

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.