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I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.
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Harlan Ellison
American
Writer
Born:
May 27
,
1934
Died:
Jun 28
,
2018
Topics
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,
Kind
,
Write
,
Put
,
Surreal
,
Fantasy
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Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.
John Updike
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I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.
Harlan Ellison
Paperback
Kind
Write
Put
Surreal
Fantasy
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
Wilbur Smith
Time
Me
Every
Every Time
Books
Paperback
About
Gives
Sells
Gold
Them
Million
Copies
Pan
When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff.
Jon Batiste
You
Beatles
Song
Guitar
Old
Singing
Bach
Paperback
Writer
Almost
Like
Wrote
Hear
Been
Verse
Off
Same
Goes
Just
Blues
Bluesy
Influences
Old Thing
Cappella
Many
Bridge
Chorus
Riff
Thing
Start
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.
Russell Smith
Alone
Great
Crime
Paperback
Punishment
Immersed
Statistics
Fact
Instantly
Miss
Days
Look
Narrative
Up
Human
Room
Lunacy
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
Christine Quinn
Great
Library
School
King
Paperback
Section
Madame
Carver
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Had
Until
Read
George
Were
George Washington
Story
Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Washington
Elementary
Elementary School
Biographies
Biography
Luther
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.
Jonathan Franzen
Work
Good
Freedom
Technology
Water
Paperback
Would
Spill
Pretty
Pretty Good
Like
Edition
Still
American
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
Terry Brooks
Work
First
Become
Publish
Books
Later
Several
Paperback
Bestseller
New
Trade
Times
Did
York
List
New York
Fiction
New York Times
Anyway
Novel
Publishers should use the paperback side to leverage the ebook side.
Sylvia Day
Side
Paperback
Should
Use
Publishers
Leverage
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