Books Quote by Peter Shaffer

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

— Paul G. Tremblay

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Toni Morrison

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a…

— Ruskin Bond

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins