Answers Quote by Len Deighton

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going…

— Kathryn Stockett

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

— Jean M. Auel

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

— Toni Morrison

“who wrote book 1st”

— John Green

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

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

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.”

— Adam Langer

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