Author Quote by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I hardly ever look at my published books.

— Michael Longley

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins

My first book was the book that changed my life.

— Stephen Ambrose

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

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

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…

— Tea Obreht