Quotes About Determination

A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through.

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

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

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

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.

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

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

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

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.