Books Quote by Khaled Hosseini

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

— Kami Garcia

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second…

— Sabaa Tahir

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key.…

— Jandy Nelson

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws…

— Daniel Alarcon

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot…

— Yiyun Li

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels,…

— Claire Cameron

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new…

— Kameron Hurley