First Novel Quotes

87 First Novel quotes by 83 unique authors

• The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction,… — Donna Tartt
• My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money… — Ian Rankin
• The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named… — Taiye Selasi
• I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between… — Laini Taylor
• I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with… — Joan D. Vinge
• I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or… — Amy Waldman
• My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon
• My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people.… — Robert Cormier
• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be… — Alastair Campbell
• I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. — Ned Beauman
• When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor
• I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to… — Anthony Doerr
• I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. — Kevin J. Anderson
• Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this… — John Updike
• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance
• SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery.… — Jerry B. Jenkins
• My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one… — Nicole Krauss
• Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical… — Rachel Kushner
• In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. — Oscar Wilde
• I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon

Who Wrote These First Novel Quotes

83 authors contributed a total of 87 First Novel Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 First Novel Quotes by Martin Amis
• 2 First Novel Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
• 2 First Novel Quotes by Jennifer Chiaverini
• 2 First Novel Quotes by Daniel Handler
• 1 First Novel Quote by William Bernhardt
• 1 First Novel Quote by Wilbur Smith
• 1 First Novel Quote by Walter Mosley
• 1 First Novel Quote by Vikas Swarup
• 1 First Novel Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 First Novel Quote by Terry Brooks
• 1 First Novel Quote by Tayari Jones
• 1 First Novel Quote by Tama Janowitz
• 1 First Novel Quote by Taiye Selasi
• 1 First Novel Quote by Sue Grafton
• 1 First Novel Quote by Stuart Woods
• 1 First Novel Quote by Stuart Dybek
• 1 First Novel Quote by Steven Saylor
• 1 First Novel Quote by Sheri Holman
• 1 First Novel Quote by Salman Rushdie
• 1 First Novel Quote by Robin McKinley
• 1 First Novel Quote by Robert Cormier
• 1 First Novel Quote by Rachel Kushner
• 1 First Novel Quote by Piers Anthony
• 1 First Novel Quote by Philip K. Jason
• 1 First Novel Quote by Patricia Duncker