Because Quote by Marilynne Robinson

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general,…

— Marilynne Robinson

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the…

— Virginia Woolf

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

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

— Toni Morrison

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to…

— Owen King

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn…

— Daniel Tammet

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White