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First Novel Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
- My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount…
More First Novel Quotes
- I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more… — Piers Anthony
- In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon
- I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research… — Amy Waldman
- Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks
- My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the… — Bharati Mukherjee
- This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — 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
- Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks