Book Quote by Neil Gaiman

It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.

— Patti Davis

I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the book would…

— Stephanie Land

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher…

— Mark Haddon

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second…

— Sabaa Tahir

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

— Robert McCloskey

If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long…

— Saul David

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made…

— Bernard Cornwell