First Book Quotes

150 First Book quotes by 130 unique authors

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays. — Caitlin Moran
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make… — Italo Calvino
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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 refusals… — George Bernard Shaw
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well,… — Stephen Colbert
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But… — Francis Bacon
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create… — Anais Nin
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved — Audrey Niffenegger
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing… — Jim Butcher
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening. — Jim C. Hines
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it… — Neil Gaiman
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his… — Jim Jarmusch
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. — Robert Aris Willmott
I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so… — Orhan Pamuk
Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was… — Ashwin Sanghi
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded… — Aimee Bender
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

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