Katelyn Ohashi Quotes

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

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.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.