Your first book is the only one that matters.

[Paul Whybrow]

'Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.'

Italo Calvino

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Time and again, I think a lot of authors have one standout title. The rest may be good, but they are shadows in comparison, or rehashes, and now the machine has kicked in and taken over.