K. A. Applegate Quotes

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of a writer was not so hopeless, not so bad.

I've been writing for a long time.

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

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.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.