Quotes about authors
authors avoid dozen novels published randy susan wrote
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too. John Searles
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The Big Moo is a book that's not just about breaking all the rules -- it's about changing the game entirely. We want to help people start a movement in their organization -- to stop trying to be perfect and start being remarkable. The goal is to make the book's wisdom, its practical application, its fun, and its authors accessible, while raising millions for charity.
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The authors of this report had the chance to establish this at first hand by interviewing union representatives but failed to do so. It is not hard to see why the report lacks balance and objectivity.
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The authors of this report explain why the previous studies have been inconsistent and really make a compelling case.
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The authors didn't tie this increase to the plants, nor do we. Our concern is with the uncertainty of what's happening where; this kind of stuff can't be taken off the table.
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It's great that we're authors of our own destiny in this championship. Eddie O'Sullivan
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It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.
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It's criminal if successful authors don't support literacy. I challenge them all to write a check. Patricia Cornwell
authors gone since
It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
authors community great people
It's great to see each community - the people that live there and the authors who write about it. And the food.
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It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.
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It's not for third parties to come in and digitize copyrighted works of 10s of thousands of authors and decide what they'll do with it.
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A vibrant book festival with internationally renowned authors helps to inspire children and fosters a love of reading. When children and young adults have the opportunity to interact with authors, it's just magical!
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Authors are easy to get on with - if you're fond of children.
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Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell. Michael A. Stackpole
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards. Neil Gaiman
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Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago. Helen Oyeyemi
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Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks, Cory Doctorow
authors heard phenomenon uncommon
To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview - the 'get' - isn't an uncommon phenomenon here at 'The Daily Show.' We've had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you've heard of, authors you should have read. Kevin Bleyer
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I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school. Julia Quinn
authors believer fact
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book. Scott Turow
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I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone. Maria Semple
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I feel a bit like Ellen Glasgow (I think it was) who said that she was the master and characters did what she said. I'm envious of authors whose characters become so real to them that they take off in their own directions, but my philosophy of teaching, as well as writing, is to demystify the process. James Gunn
authors committed crimes endure merely
How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong! Albert Camus
authorship materials
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. Joseph Addison
authors catalogue great lives perhaps
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule. Paul Di Filippo
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I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean. Robin Wasserman
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Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer. Mal Peet
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The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations. Julia Quinn
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The dynamics are such that this is going to happen. The sharpest authors will do the sharpest deals.