Book Quote by Josephine Tey

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

— Sophie Dahl

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

— Judy Blume

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Daniel Handler

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

— Ford Madox Ford

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

— Anonymous

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

— Bill Vaughan

“The best authors are both evocative AND precise. But if you prefer one over the other, who is to say what's best? Every book…

— Anonymous