Book Quote by Suzanne Brockmann

There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that…

— Michael Connelly

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second…

— Sabaa Tahir

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key.…

— Jandy Nelson

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing…

— Evelyn Lau

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy…

— Matthew Reilly

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

— Anatole Broyard

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

— Mahmoud Darwish