"I wrote my first novel because I wanted…" — Toni Morrison

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• Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write… — Geraldine Brooks
• I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I… — Piers Anthony
• My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I… — Bharati Mukherjee
• This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize,… — Mario Vargas Llosa
• If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. — Mordecai Richler
• In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon
• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of… — Terry Brooks
• During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became… — Patricia Briggs
• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most… — Octavia Butler
• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories.… — Walter Mosley
• My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized… — Tayari Jones
• Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you… — Louise Mensch

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