First Novel Quotes

87 quotes by 83 authors

Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the… — Sheri Holman
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. — Michael Connelly
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes,… — Philip K. Jason
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience… — Elie Wiesel
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen,… — Janice Y. K. Lee
A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. — Stuart Woods
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton
HÃ©ctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a… — Stuart Dybek
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel Iâ€™ve read that makes music as important as food,Â clothing romance â€” a fresh twist millions will be able… — Tama Janowitz
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I… — Kenzaburo Oe
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again. — Patricia Duncker
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women… — Jennifer Chiaverini
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So… — Jesmyn Ward
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. — John Green
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time… — Martin Amis
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim. — Martin Amis
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the… — Don DeLillo

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