Laini Taylor Quotes

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.

The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

I want to write a best-selling book.

As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.