Jane Lindskold Quotes

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

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

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

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

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.

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

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.

Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.