10000-days Quote by John Green

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following.

— Celeste Ng

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second…

— Len Deighton

“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you…

— Italo Calvino

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

— Daphne du Maurier

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates