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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
Hakan Nesser
Good
You
Crime
Year
Every
Books
Good Ones
Could
Cut
Sweden
Keep
Published
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
Hallie Ephron
Jealousy
You
Happy
Book
Writing
Rule
Pointless
No-One
Read
Always
Am
Sisters
Get
Published
Competitiveness
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
Helen Dunmore
First
Books
Collection
Poems
New
Very
Imprint
Which
Then
Published
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
Helen Dunmore
Great
First
Submit
Entering
See
Some
Magazines
Poems
Like
Accepted
Felt
Tradition
However
Were
Began
Moment
Published
British
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.
Henry Reed
Dreams
Interpretation
Introduced
Were
Freud
Existed
Predictable
Which
Formed
Processes
Certain
Notion
Published
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
Henry Reed
Dreams
People
First
Possible
Kind
Constructive
Journal
Study
Make
Demonstrate
Clinical
Improve
Report
Psychology
Use
Lives
Published
In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.
Hisham Matar
Me
Book
Speak
Father
Men
First
Country
Gave
Libya
Record
About
Bigger
Novel
Platform
Publication
Published
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.
Hooman Majd
You
Money
Living
Kind
See
Could
Couple
Make
Got
Making
Were
Going
Short
Stories
Short Story
Story
Published
Publishing
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
Ian Rankin
Competition
First
Out
Wrote
Another
Came
Up
Won
Prize
Short
Short Story
Story
Newspaper
Radio
Published
Second
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
Irwin Shaw
Great
Nothing
Market
Out
Magazines
Almost
Almost Nothing
Were
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Unfortunately
Many
Published
Early
Started
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
Isabel Allende
Speak
Books
Write
Spanish
English
Published
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.
Isabel Gillies
Dyslexic
Strong
College
Think
Kid
Through
Write
Had
Wrote
Very
Get
Going
Impulse
Anything
Tutors
Who
Published
I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.
Isobelle Carmody
Book
First
Year
Older
Had
Category
Also
Wrote
Readers
Accepted
Australia
Listed
Short
Children
Sent
Full
Published
Publisher
Fourteen
I'd never been published when I was young.
Jack Vance
Young
Never
Been
Published
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
Jack Zipes
Attitude
Editing
Changed
Only
Adult
Primarily
Tales
Edition
Led
Families
After
Decided
Produce
Many
Published
Two
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida
Life
Reading
Young
Kind
Bad
Some
Poetry
Journals
Also
Wrote
Withdrew
Led
North
African
Even
Published
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.
James E. Gunn
Good
You
Adequately
Recognize
Some
Give
Could
Had
Participants
Merit
Names
Editor
Been
Being
Who
Many
Workshop
Published
Right
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
James Fenton
Luxury
Will
Poet
Somewhere
Beauty
Preserved
Lyric
Ruin
Mine
Find
Able
Some
Someone
Poem
More
Remains
Write
Nobody
Principle
Read
Than
Want
Form
Published
Need
Position
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
James Rollins
Time
Be Happy
Happy
Strange
Animal
Book
Writing
Doctor
Welfare
First
Before
Think
Back
Sold
Secretly
Would
Would-Be
My Time
Could
Volunteer
Also
Wrote
Return
Said
Still
Causes
Years
Office
Veterinarian
Stop
Stories
While
Help
Ever
Published
Career
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.
James Salter
You
Book
First
Advice
Took
See
More
Merely
Nobody
Without
Said
Editorial
Any
Might
Why
Published
'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure.
James Salter
You
Thrilled
Paris
Mythical
He
Himself
Practically
Always
George
Were
Review
Pinnacle
Legendary
Place
Figure
Published
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.
Jami Attenberg
School
Important
Out
Magazines
Seemed
Pursue
Writers
Countless
Go
Send
Graduate
Pitch
Getting
Graduate School
Where
Literary
Agents
Manuscripts
Even
Letters
Published
Start
I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.
Jane Green
Life
Myself
Book
Wonderful
First
Would
Would-Be
Dreamt
Entirely
Write
Never
Had
Always
Built
Wonderful Life
America
Published
I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
Jane Lindskold
First
Half
Late
Out
Brother
Had
Over
Since
Came
Owls
Companion
Novel
Novels
Published
Dozen
Dragons
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.
Jane Smiley
Library
Honesty
Club
Other
Herself
Considered
Scandalous
City
Fine
Fine Arts
She
Offer
Author
Same
Arts
Banned
Barred
Novel
Awakening
Published
Among
Things
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
Janet Evanovich
Business
Book
Writing
Try
Somewhere
Nothing
Later
Finally
Telling
Would
About
Ten
Ten Years
Had
Knew
Along
Liked
Got
Line
Years
Getting
Stories
Decided
Realized
Working
Skills
Hard
Keep
Published
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