Autobiographical Quote by Peter Hedges

'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that…

— Kris Kristofferson

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

— Marlee Matlin

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels,…

— Claire Cameron

“The last year had been a series of wrong turns, bad choices, abandoned projects. There was the all-girl band in which she had played…

— David Nicholls

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led…

— Julie Klassen

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in…

— Eleanor Catton

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

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 think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for…

— Lee Smith