Tess Gerritsen
Related In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. STEPHEN R. GEORGE I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.' ALEXI ZENTNER In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I... JANE YOLEN There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked... JESSE KELLERMAN My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN ELLEN HOPKINS EDMUND WHITE MAX SCHNEIDER I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salv... JESMYN WARD DOROTHY ALLISON I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brot... JANE LINDSKOLD BORIS BECKER ANN COULTER I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. Tha... SHARON CREECH 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short tr... BRUCE COCKBURN My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. T... MONA SIMPSON ANTHONY BURGESS JAMES PATTERSON After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy...... IRIS JOHANSEN With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to r... EDAN LEPUCKI JOHN UPDIKE In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - ... GAYLE LYNDS BRUCE COVILLE VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book... JUDY BLUME I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first n... CAROLINE LEAVITT I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and... IAN RANKIN BORIS BECKER It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dis... HOLLY MOSIER As a craftsman, I made my living at writing from the moment I crossed the line at age 20, and sold m... A. E. VAN VOGT SIMONE ELKELES MOLLY HARPER BRYSON TILLER NICHOLAS SPARKS I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me ... KAREN ROBARDS I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I... JAMES ROLLINS One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH PETE WENTZ When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ... L. E. MODESITT, JR. JAMES BROWN I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and ar... CHARLES SOULE Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That... PATRICK MODIANO LAINI TAYLOR PETER SHAFFER GEORGE SAUNDERS When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many yea... GRACE LIN MATTHEW PERRY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE GREGG ALLMAN I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I d... LARRY BISHOP I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I'... NATE RUESS I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin roma... K. A. APPLEGATE We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango t... JOEL MURRAY I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. RANDY ALCORN I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged t... L. E. MODESITT, JR. I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol... TED CHIANG I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I'v... DAVID NEVINS MATT GROENING BARRY EISLER RITA ORA My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character ev... RHEA PERLMAN I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came... GEORGE SHEARING I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before... PATRICK MARBER BRYSON TILLER IRV KUPCINET The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. DEBORAH EISENBERG CANDACE BUSHNELL JOAN D. VINGE EVA LONGORIA NATALIE BABBITT NICK HARKAWAY TONI MORRISON My first call was on a house in East Granby, a nice, old beautiful house. It looked like an awesome ... BETH MACKIE When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wa... NOAH HAWLEY My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've... JESS WALTER [After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With... CURTIS ARMSTRONG MATT SMITH I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bo... JASON SEGEL DEYTH BANGER AIMEE BENDER The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't ... AHMET ZAPPA For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outsi... LAURA TROTT When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to wri... JENNIFER CHIAVERINI For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the... GEORGE STEPHEN After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to writ... ISHMAEL BEAH When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outle... JOSIE BISSETT DAVID CASSIDY While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door... MA JIAN It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and... CAMILLA BELLE When I sold that stock, the company had just completed an analyst call reporting its quarterly numbe... GARY WINNICK I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tob... ARTURO TOSCANINI I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading no... CYNTHIA KENYON I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' wa... DANIEL ALARCON ALAIN DE BOTTON JOHNNY DEPP My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s... IAN RANKIN I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three diffe... DAN CHAON I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commerci... FRANCIA RAISA
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