Noelle Stevenson Quotes

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

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

When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.

When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.

I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was not on my radar.

I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it.

I wrote 'Time Stops at Shamli' in 1956, shortly after 'The Room on the Roof' was published, and I couldn't find anyone to publish it.

There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online.

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 would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four years before being published.

I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.

My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer.

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed to get published! I have plenty more ideas up my sleeve!