Books Quote by Jon McGregor

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

— Christine Leunens

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

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

— Zane Grey

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was going to…

— Prue Leith

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han