First Book Quotes

150 First Book quotes by 130 unique authors

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I… — Jim McKelvey
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing… — Kent Haruf
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. — Deborah Copaken Kogan
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there… — Claire Tomalin
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties. — Malcolm Gladwell
I can always track my career by the children - I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my first book just… — Heather Graham Pozzessere
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches… — Andy Weir
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think. — Robert McCloskey
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not… — Paulo Coelho
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that… — Justin Cronin
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult… — Daniel Tammet
I really absolutely loved writing my first book. — Jill Davis
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping in… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Second Book, Stupid, For Dummies. Shall be on store shelves soon. It is the followup to my first book, The International Best Seller, The… — Eric Nickel
The first book in most languages of the world has been the Bible!! — Glen Rambharack
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in… — William Joyce
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who… — William Joyce

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130 authors contributed a total of 150 First Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: