Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

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 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 wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't…

— Sally Rooney

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

“Trying to have your first book read when you’re a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when everyone is…

— Charles Bonnaire

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know…

— Haruki Murakami

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

— Louise Mensch

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho