John Berendt Book Quotations

It probably will get to be a burden, ... But I can talk about it. It's a reasonable question, and anyone who has written two books is going to have the comparison made.

The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.