Books Quote by Michael Connelly

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )”

— Michael Connelly

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

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

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

— Toni Morrison

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

— Charles Stross

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a…

— Edward Albee