First Novel Ever Written Quotes

#1. Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#2. Stephen ... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#3. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross

#4. The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

Malcolm X

#5. At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

Ashwin Sanghi

#6. When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in the first part of the nineteenth century without once mentioning Napoleon.

Michelle Cooper

#7. One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

Anupam Kher

#8. My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.

Ben Bova

#9. Flaccus, the sort of girl I hate
Is the scrawny one, with arms so thin
My rings would fit them, hips that grate,
Spine like a saw, knees like a pin
And a coccyx like a javelin.
But all the same I don't go in
For sheer bulk. I appreciate
Good meat, not blubber, on my plate.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#10. I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.

Jennifer Armentrout

#11. I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

Cynthia Ozick

#12. This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Bill Bruford

#13. 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

Bel Powley

#14. I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

Rachel Kushner

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.

Blake Western

#18. I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Joan Didion

#19. I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

Christopher Moore

#20. When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

George Stephen

#21. We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.

Linda Lantieri

#22. Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

Daniel Handler

#23. That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Ransom Riggs

#24. I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

Tamora Pierce

#25. I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."

Donna Tartt