Jo Beverley Quotes

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

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

I never set out to be a published writer.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

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.

I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

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

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

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.

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