About Quote by Paul Di Filippo

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

— John Updike

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

— Andrew Stanton

It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit…

— Ruben Fleischer

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people…

— Neal H. Moritz

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the…

— Dean Koontz

In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original.

— Steven Van Zandt

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

— Robert M. Pirsig

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do…

— Troy Duffy

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler