Books Quote by Michael Connelly

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

— Neil Gaiman

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but…

— Grace Lin

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a…

— Gerard de Marigny

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also,…

— E. Lockhart

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

— John Green

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a…

— Matt Groening