First Book Quotes

150 quotes by 131 authors

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure… — James M. Barrie
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to… — Bill Bryson
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around… — Harlan Coben
It took me 40 years to write my first book. — Paulo Coelho
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone… — Laura Hillenbrand
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to… — Amy Hempel
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and… — Michael Koryta
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Linda Gregerson
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I… — Buchi Emecheta
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's… — Poul Anderson
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me.… — Patricia Highsmith
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing… — John Cage
I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the… — Lucy Fry
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York… — Wilfrid Sheed
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right… — Jackie Collins
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps… — Rita Dove

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