Asks Quote by Benjamin Franklin

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that…

— John Hodgman

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

— Tom Stoppard

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image…

— Ignazio Silone

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up…

— J. K. Rowling

One shouldn't say yes in desperation to the first publisher who approaches. New authors especially should wait and weigh their deal and agree only…

— Ravi Subramanian

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

— James Franco

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed…

— Amy Purdy

Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher…

— Chris Pavone

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

— Paul Gascoigne