It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
Jasper Fforde
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it... →
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
Helen Fielding
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are... →
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at... →
My books have all generated controversy.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
Joy Fielding