Quotes About Book Sequels

#1. I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Epictetus

#3. Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

Marguerite Henry

#4. Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

Scott Westerfeld

#5. I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.

Jane Gardam

#6. It reminded me how, at work that week, there'd been a meeting when a client visited, a woman, and after she'd left the conference room, the first task had been to evaluate her aesthetically, to weigh in on her breasts and legs, the make and quality of her handbag.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#7. I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Connie Willis

#8. It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

#9. Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Nick Hornby

#10. I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

Carl Icahn

#11. 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

#12. But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what wemight call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.

George Pattison