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literary publishers secretly wrote
I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. Tawni O'Dell
literary resisted saw time writer
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Ellen Potter
literary looking novels parties people problem spend time york
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman
literary quite scientific
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Ian Mcewan
literary-genre mind tasks
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. Aberjhani
literary published terrible
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! Siri Hustvedt
literary reasons writers
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. Jeffrey Eugenides
literary work
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. Andrea Hirata
literary robust seem serious struck
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux
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 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. Kate Thompson
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
secretly sort valuable
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. Sarah Jessica Parker
secretly spray
If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere. Blake Lively
secretly written
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure. Jonathan Coleman
secretly teacher work
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work. Patricia Marx
secretly whatever
A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.
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I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before. Kent Haruf
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Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Alice Walker
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In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. William Gibson
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. Gail Carson Levine
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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison
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I wrote my first short story in third grade. Jennifer McMahon
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. Randy Alcorn