Book Sequence Quotes

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Six books after the surprises of 'Full Dark House,' the Bryant and May novels continue to stay within the bounds of formula by straining against them in new ways.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.

If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.'

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.