Anything Quote by Lee Smith

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

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

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep…

— V. S. Naipaul

“Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and their stories…

— Cat Winters

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the…

— Carl Hiaasen

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

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing…

— Evelyn Lau

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

For as long as writers have written, they've had second thoughts about their work.

— Maria Konnikova

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy