Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it m...
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)
Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.
Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they ca...
How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers like you...
The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.
Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.
Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.
It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)
If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form,...
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...
What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.
Blessed are the ones who offer coffee to writers, for they will get all the rewards mentioned in the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantl...
I am a perfectionist in spirit
A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.
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