Books Quote by Deborah Moggach

I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't…

— Mohsin Hamid

My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my life and…

— Rebecca Serle

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in…

— Amos Oz

My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the…

— Hilary Mantel

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s…

— Noah Hawley

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

— Umberto Eco

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see…

— Neil Jordan

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

— Paul G. Tremblay

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe