Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn abou...
For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outb...
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.
Whatever you do, let it be lovely.
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.
You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
In order to be heard, an author must have readers...
Drizzle happiness wherever you go.
Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.
Bernard of Clairvaux shared with Goethe and Balzac the art of charging narratives with his own charisma (and this is probably the only context in which those three names can be mentioned in one breath...
I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you...
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.
I believe the best reviews are any of those wherein readers share their true opinion, no matter how many stars they rate my work. When I receive responses from appreciative people thanking for useful...
The only thing in life that's really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants--whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they're no good, I put it down. Maybe it's good af...
Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.