About Quote by Douglas Adams

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's…

— Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later…

— Piers Anthony

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

— S. E. Hinton

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

— Clive Cussler

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

— Rachel Gibson

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly…

— Rachel Kushner

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a…

— Jess Walter