Literary Series Quotes

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.

I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The character of Hap wouldn't stop talking to me, and then there was a third, and over the years nine novels and a collection of stories and some uncollected stories.

All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

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.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.

I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too.

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.