Book Quote by Anna Quindlen

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start…

— Kami Garcia

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do…

— Jan Brett

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or ruin me…

— Kim Hotzon

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

— Laura Lippman

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

— Sal Khan

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han