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Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.
— Criag Whitman
Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.
— Mark Billingham
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
— Tao Lin
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
— Nora Ephron
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
— Henry Kissinger
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
— Stephen Hawking
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
— Jen Lancaster
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
— Nicholas Sparks
As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn't "Is this a good book?" but "Is this really the story I want to spend my time on?
— Rachel Aaron
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.
— Lauren Hutton
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
— Jan Brett
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Jiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
— Elie Wiesel
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
— Matthew Lesko
When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.
— Steven Moore
My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.
— Josie Bissett
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.
— Philipp Meyer
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
— Leon Uris
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
— Kent Haruf
If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.
— Edwin D. Ferretti III
My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.
— Narendra Modi
When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.
— Gillian Flynn
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
— Joan Collins
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
— Jan Karon
I first started out wanting to draw manga. But because my wrist got weak, I decided to write and draw all my book covers instead.
— B.A. Gabrielle
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.
— Sara Sheridan
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
— Kate Klise
I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.
— Steven Hall
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
— Madison Pettis
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
— Kate Thompson
I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.
— Michelle Moran
When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
— Rabih Alameddine
My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
— Darin Strauss
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
— Michael Bond
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
— Caitlin Moran
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
— Leon Uris
My first book was the book that changed my life.
— Stephen Ambrose
It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
— Janette Rallison
My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams
— Larry Smith
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
— Gore Vidal
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
— Ray Bradbury
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan
Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up.
— Alafair Burke
First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance)
— Clive Barker
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
— Patrick DeWitt
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'
— Max Brooks
I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
— Eula Biss
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
— John Hodgman
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.
— Andy Weir
I wanted him to know, to feel, the extent he rocked my world when first walking into it on Friday night.
— Lee Piper
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
— David Sedaris
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
— Gayle Forman
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
— Ben Marcus
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
— Gary Shteyngart
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
— Edward W. Said
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.
— John Boyne
If I were her? First thing I'd do is torch my little black book and start over again. Because the men that woman attracts are just plain odd.
— Elizabeth Bevarly
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.
— Jim C. Hines
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
— Gordon Gee
One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
— Joe Abercrombie
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
— James Howe
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.
— Jason Aaron
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
— Alison Weir
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.
— Dan Chaon
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
— Anthony Browne
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
— Kent Haruf
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
— Nora Roberts
I really absolutely loved writing my first book.
— Jill Davis
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
— John Boyne
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
— David Sedaris
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
— Chris Crutcher
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
— Charles Kuralt
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'
— Robert M. Pirsig
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
— Ed Emberley
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
— L. Frank Baum
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
— Kathryn Harrison
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
— Stephen Hawking
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
— Tom Wolfe
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
— Rachel Kushner