Books Quote by Peter Straub

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

— Toni Morrison

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best…

— Willow Smith

I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back…

— Lily Rabe

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels…

— Daniel Handler

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that…

— John Hodgman

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian…

— James Rollins

Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because…

— Lynn Coady

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when…

— Salman Rushdie

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

— Min Jin Lee

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

— Rainbow Rowell

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface