“At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word ...” — Laurence Yep Quote

“At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'”

“My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.”

“I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.”

“With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.”

“'Apartamento,' a magazine out of Spain but written in English, is one of my favorite magazines.”

“Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.”