“From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.” WritingYearsChildrenLittlesBookNovelEightNineCompositionNine Years Author:Joan Larkin
“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'” FirstsLooksHandsLawUsedNovelWifeFeetResearchToolsHistoricalEightMy WifeInstanceOnlineBookstoresWilsonEncyclopediaSecond HandCertitudeHistorical NovelsBastille Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.” TwoBookHomeStarsSpaceFictionNovelSeeingDadAll ThingsScience FictionLibraryMy DadEightFighterThings To DoPilotsIsaacAcesFighter PilotGuiding StarsFiction Novels Author:Gary Kemp
“I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.” ChildrenBookIdeasStoriesMovingFoundNovelAudienceSeriesEightLots Of MoneyPublishersCompleting Author:John Boyne
“I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.” ThinkingShouldWritingFirstsWellsChildrenSaidIdeasHandsSchoolHouseNovelWrittenTerribleHigh SchoolDevilAdultsEightSellingEditorsPublishingPublishInappropriatePublishing House Author:Daniel Handler
“Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.” WayPastFormNovelCommunicateEightSupremeJust OnePublishersRelics Author:William Nicholson
“I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.” YearsTwoWinningBornNovelStreetsWallEightPrizeTwo YearsWrathGrapesJanuaryGreat DepressionPlightPrize Winning Book:Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography Source: Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography
“Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie.” WritingYearsBookCharacterNovelFiveYears AgoInternationalEightHopefullyFortunateSophieCaptivatedLatches Author:Jerry Bruckheimer