Book Quote by Douglas Adams

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a…

— Raina Telgemeier

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for…

— Lee Smith

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book,…

— Mark Batterson

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second…

— Sabaa Tahir

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just…

— Gore Vidal

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

— John Berger

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

— Martin Amis