Book Quote by Mark Haddon

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

— Jean M. Auel

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to…

— Anne Tyler

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to…

— W. Bruce Cameron

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

— Arnold Lobel

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are…

— Neil Gaiman

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary…

— Daniel Handler

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest…

— Jodi Picoult

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

— Elizabeth Berg