Book Quote by R. A. Salvatore

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a…

— Shane McCrae

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

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 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 have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

— Hilary Liftin

I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…

— Lucie Brock-Broido