Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.
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...
Stories choose us, not the other way around.
Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully...
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.
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...
Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)
When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have...
I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me...
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.
Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly st...
What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?
An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)
A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a gen...