Book Quote by Robert McCloskey

The first book was a life story that I was hesitant to write anyway because I didn't feel like I had a real life…

— Bobby Bones

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag…

— Robert McCloskey

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired…

— Viv Albertine

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Sara Sheridan

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never…

— Rene Redzepi

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made…

— Bernard Cornwell

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

— Scott Turow

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about…

— Nicholas G. Carr