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Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations. Nick James
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Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,
authors believe business customer helpful publishers revenue service stream time turn
We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers, Jeff Bezos
authors drawers gets
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. Nigel Barker
authors beyond bypass criteria fact goes money sale system
The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose. Michael A. Stackpole
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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. Lois Lowry
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It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own. Ashwin Sanghi
authors female heroines inch male taller
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. Lee Child
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Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
directors guts asks
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.' Alan Rickman
directors notches top-notch
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work. Alan Alda
directed finding individual message reminding voters
We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.
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Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.
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Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.
directors crew
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them? Don Bluth
direct-action acting ifs
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. David Graeber
directors
Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often. Catherine Deneuve
director rather
To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story. Ludivine Sagnier
fairly national performance season soccer team
The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.
fairly five takes
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted. Gunter Grass
fairly manageable number size
We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.
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We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.
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We're hoping, of course, it's going to be fairly minimal since a lot of that fruit had already been picked.
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We knew this was going to happen, ... We knew probably a week before the playoffs we'd get it done. We did it. Everything has been right on time. I just hope we get the same results as the other shots. I think I played fairly well after the shots, so hopefully that will continue. Larry Walker
fairly minor process smooth
The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.
fairly heart hopes major soul
When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.
fairly
I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom. Kylie Minogue
farewell night perfect
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
far goal hope state three win
We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.
far stopped
We know what they can do, and they've been stopped so far this season.
far potential
We know we have the potential to go far into the playoffs.
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We know from the testing that's been done so far that this is not influenza, we know this is not SARS, we know this is not avian influenza. There are many other viruses it could be ... and the Ontario Public Health lab is working very hard on identifying which one of those viruses it might be.
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I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do. Louise Jameson
far few good people performance point relationship view
The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between. Russell Crowe
far score team
We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.
far iceberg tip
We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be. Flip Saunders
incentives gone spirit
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone. Aiden Wilson Tozer
incentives care christianity
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
incentive market seek
With the market buoyant, there is always the incentive to seek capital.
incentive sales
We feel that the incentive is at the right place right now to keep sales brisk.
incentives conflict sometimes
The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us. Dan Ariely
incentive plenty
I don't think we need any more incentive than we already have. We're an organization that has never been to the World Series. That's plenty of incentive right there. Phil Garner
incentive order perverse
There is a perverse incentive to overspend some, in order to get more.
incentives jobs mission offer pleased possible
Our mission is to offer as little incentives as possible and still get the jobs. We're very pleased with it and they're pleased as well.
incentive money
Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
materials blackmail
I'm really not good blackmail material. Chris Colfer
materials knows fodder
You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material. Bob Newhart
material preserved research until
Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.
material
I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months. Kenneth Fisher
material people six stories taking
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless. John Grisham
materialistic poor mystic
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. Edward Abbey
materials
I don't compose. I assemble materials. Aaron Copland
materialism lord benz
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. Janis Joplin
material wrote
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter Francis Bacon
publishers time writers
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
publishers time
There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one. Denise Mina
publishers
Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. Peter Brimelow
publishers
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
publishers publishing
Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were. Johnny Rivers
publishers readers sequel stopped writers
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed. Paul Di Filippo
running should-have principles
What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations. Charles Taylor
running dirty taken
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there. Charles Dudley Warner
running dog kids
It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day. Charles de Lint
running heart doors
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
running building-up house
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. Charles Dickens
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. Charles Caleb Colton
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
selling-more goal priorities
Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities. Don Cooper
sells
Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. Dennis Miller
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers
sell water
There is no new requirement to sell any water
sell series
We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.
selling soon supplies
We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,
sells ifs i-can
If I don't buy it, I can't sell it. Ben Feldman
sells
No one ever expects poetry to sell. Alan Lightman
selling-more records labels
I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. Aimee Mann