Book Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the…

— Anne Bronte

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some…

— Nick Hornby

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

— Robert McCloskey

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

— Holly Black

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

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 was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book…

— Jennifer Chiaverini