I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the…

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

— John Green

“Don't cry over the same thing twice. Get it all out the first time, even if it's loud and messy. Then it's over.”

— Ruth Emmie Lang

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

— Sylvester Stallone

I tell you once, I tell you twice, but third time is the last time.

— $Teady

I told you once I told you twice, the next time I won't be so nice.

— Jazmine Sullivan

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

— Jennifer Egan

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led…

— Julie Klassen

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in…

— Eleanor Catton

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for…

— Lee Smith

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I…

— S. E. Hinton

“Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.”

— Olivia Goldsmith

“The last year had been a series of wrong turns, bad choices, abandoned projects. There was the all-girl band in which she had played…

— David Nicholls