I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.