After Quote by Jennifer Chiaverini

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year)…

— Andy Cohen

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was…

— Betsy Byars

I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points…

— Tod Goldberg

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the…

— Virginia Hamilton

“I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The…

— J. Alexander Greenwood

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing…

— Evelyn Lau

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just…

— Marguerite Henry

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve…

— Sarah Dessen

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some…

— Nick Hornby

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