Book Quote by Bill Bryson

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

— Chesa Boudin

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.…

— Benjamin Franklin

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney

The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in…

— Denise Mina

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

— Antony Beevor

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in…

— Kathy Reichs

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade…

— Ian Frazier

After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better.

— Ravi Subramanian

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— William Peter Blatty

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

— John Larroquette