Rosamunde Pilcher Quotes

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

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.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

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

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.