Tibor Fischer Quotes

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business. It's not a business. It's more like a tough road. It's a really tough road.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

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

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.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

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.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

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.'

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

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

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

It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

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.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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.