Better Quote by Ravi Subramanian

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in…

— Dick Van Dyke

“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the top of…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because…

— Patrick Modiano

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

— Ice Cube

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher…

— Jackie Collins

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

My goal is to get better with each book, and I feel like I am.

— George Pelecanos

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Karl Ove Knausgard

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that…

— Walter Mosley