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

“To be honest, I write for myself. Therapy, I suppose people would call it. So when someone buys and reads one of my stories,…

— Robert Black

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

— Brandy Norwood

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was my labor of love. When asked the best thing I ever did - that was it. I wrote…

— Carl Reiner

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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 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

“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