Stacy Schiff Quotes

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

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 want to write books.

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

People do write books.

We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

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.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

I want to be an author.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.