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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

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk. — Jen Lancaster

F you'd crack a book, you'd appreciate the connection, but then again, you'd have to learn to read first. -Silas — Andrea Cremer

Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny. — Shay Dawkins

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems. — Jonathan Galassi

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.' — Scott Turow

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. — Thucydides

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way. — Shay Dawkins

THE FIRST CHAPTER, MARCUS, is essential. If the readers don't like it, they won't read the rest of your book. How do you plan to begin yours? — Joel Dicker

Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy. — Joe Meno

One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY. — Shay Dawkins

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. — Kit Carson

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. — St. Jerome

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. — Desiderius Erasmus

This whole book is composed of first pages. — Helene Cixous

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book. — Mickey Spillane

They say 90% of the promotion of a book comes through word of mouth. But you've somehow got to get your book into the hands of those mouths first! — Claudia Osmond

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny! — David Cross

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps

Yield, and I'll eat your little pussy... first. — Setta Jay

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper. — Geoff Thompson

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself. — John Boyne

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book? — Michael De Luca

Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you've got a book in eight or nine months. — Vaclav Smil

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. - Richard Due — Richard Due

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

You are the first of your kind. Books will be written about you. Be the legend you are meant to be. - Astral — Candace Knoebel

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose. — Neil Simon

No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great. — Shay Dawkins

Your MY first girlfriend I ever had
Your MY first boyfriend I ever had — Me

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. — Emily Post

Your first book is the promise you make. — Toni Jenkins

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. — Seth Godin

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

'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

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd. — Rick Wakeman

So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages. — Matthew Quick

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. — Luis Marques

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

'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

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day. — Jason Aaron

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it. — Martha Grimes

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

Silver-the first book of dreams — Kerstin Gier

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

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

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert

Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction. — Craig Mercier

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!. — Will Rogers

Book the First - Recalled to Life — Charles Dickens

Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead, — William, Executive Editor Messenger

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. — Jonathan Franzen

For books, timing is everything. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. — Marie Kondo

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' — Robert M. Pirsig

One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier

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

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties. — Malcolm Gladwell

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page. — Brody Armstrong

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