When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.