Book Quote by John Sergeant Wise

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe…

— Frederick Busch

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't…

— Vogue Williams

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend…

— Paul Auster

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

— Vikas Swarup

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

— Terrell Owens

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

— Tim Ferriss

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader…

— Helen Garner

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when…

— Anna Quindlen

Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is,…

— Neal Stephenson