First Novel Quotes

87 quotes by 83 authors

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by… — Geraldine Brooks
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about… — Piers Anthony
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land… — Bharati Mukherjee
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. — Mordecai Richler
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York… — Terry Brooks
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of… — Patricia Briggs
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit… — Octavia Butler
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with… — Walter Mosley
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that… — Tayari Jones
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out… — Louise Mensch
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love… — Steven Saylor
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel… — Carl Sandburg
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. — Jon McGregor
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting… — William Bernhardt
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you donâ€™t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not… — John Braine
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was… — Lisa Alther
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. — Jonathan Maberry

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