Writing Progression Quotes

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

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

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

I can't trace thematic similarities between Then We Came To The End and The Unnamed to a life event; I think it's more just a natural progression as a writer. Everything changes in the second book - tonally, character-wise, situationally - and on top of that, I think I wanted a challenge. I wanted to see if I could do it.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.