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'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! Alison Weir

History Book Rest First Say Dare Head Became Families Story Published Royal Britain

'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed. Allan Gurganus

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I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading. Alonzo Church

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I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970. Amartya Sen

Welfare Collective Delhi Left After Social Choice Social Welfare Published

I never thought my ideas would actually get published. Amish Tripathi

Thought Would Never Ideas Get Published Actually

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989. Amor Towles

Age Writing Kid More Paris Since Wrote Been Review Than Short Fiction Stories Short Stories Which Published

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier. Andrea Barrett

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children. Ann Hood

I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school. Ann Powers

Music Writing School Criticism Later Mine High High School Poem Bug Got Came Grade Little Newspaper Published Fourth

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind. Anna Todd

Mind Beginning Abstract Idea Option Being In The Beginning Even Published Thing

One of the first books that outlined spiritual mapping was 'Breaking Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping to Make your Prayers More Strategic, Effective and Targeted,' published in 1993. Anthea Butler

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. Antony Beevor

Great First See London Had Excitement Central Novel Round Published

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published. Arthur Phillips

I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that. Arundhati Roy

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

Once Would Write Knew Happen Decided Published

I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect. Ayobami Adebayo

First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood. Ben Peek

First Autumn Nothing Bone Seven Would Would-Be More Sticks Began Than Disenchanted Childhood Icons Published Twilight Dragons

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day. Benjamin Percy

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I read my books aloud before they were published. Beverly Cleary

Before Books Aloud Read Were Published

My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence. Bhagat Singh

Reality Defence Interview Strike Press Hunger Though Tribunal Willing Never Misinterpreted Were Offer Submitted Any Going Regarding Published Applications

My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response. Bill Clegg

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. Bill F. Walsh

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A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.' Bob Shacochis

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