Jenny Han Quotes

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

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

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else.

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

I can't believe I actually wrote a book.

When I published my first book, a memoir, the experience taught me that writing something of any significant length was an endurance sport as much as anything else.