Frank D. Gilroy Quotes

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.

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

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.

As a professional singer, I want to be remembered as a singer with her own distinctive color, both by the public and the people in the industry, during and at the end of my career.

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

I'm a writer and I've had some success.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

I never thought I'd write one book, let alone three. I'm absolutely delighted and every night, thank the good lord for spell check.

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.