Books Quote by James Merrill

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not…

— Jane Gardam

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when…

— Salman Rushdie

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved.…

— Wilbur Smith

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is…

— Ben Lerner

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

— Karan Bajaj

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could…

— Tom Riley

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

— Derrick Jensen

Once you get a couple good plays, you get confidence and it carries over.

— Stephen Gostkowski

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was…

— Michael Weatherly

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley