Quotes About Success

It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't.

I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

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.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

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

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

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

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

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.

When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.