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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
Patricia Reilly Giff
Home
Morning
Me
Book
Become
Every
Think
Corn
Out
Stay
Eat
Dressed
Window
Inspired
Write
New
Looked
Well
Said
Go
Author
Get
Snow
York
New York
Candy
Teach
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
People
Down
Books
Those
Thousand
Some
Online
Having
Most
Obviously
Make
Make A Difference
Sort
Makes
Blog
Sales
Sell
Author
Moderately
Just
Difference
Public
Modest
Popular
Even
Profile
Level
Presence
Copies
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss
Me
Book
Word
Group
Meet
Out
Would
Some
About
Tend
Point
Could
Through
Put
Support
Obsess
Obsessive
Like
Perhaps
Him
Sort
Another
Does
Understatement
Revision
Author
Moderately
Maybe
Where
Form
Anything
Dysfunctional
Really
Who
You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
Paul Cleave
You
Living
Market
Only
Simply
New
Make
Author
New Zealand
Your
Zealand
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.
Paul Di Filippo
Writing
Better
Doors
Writer
Highest
New
Opening
Altered
Readers
Permanently
Praise
His
Textual
Author
Conferred
Any
Essential
Irreplaceable
Literary
Transformative
Landscape
Engaging
Certainly
Assertion
Her
The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
Paul Fleischman
Words
Few
Come
Up
Author
Any
Title
Hardest
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
Paul Kane
Respect
Writing
Personality
Believe
Other
Through
Writers
Like
Most
Author
Any
Fiction
Really
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
Paul Ryan
Good
Great
People
Strong
Overcome
Enthusiasm
Free
Poverty
Power
Economics
Despair
Gave
Incredible
Possibilities
Enterprise
About
Free Enterprise
Free People
Learned
Deal
Reagan
His
Optimism
Jack
Author
America
Reforms
Same
Tax
Communities
Good Deal
Belief
Now
Right
Need
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
Pearl Cleage
Character
You
Writing
First
Tell
See
Main
Main Character
First-Person
Author
Person
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
Per Petterson
Love
Family
Me
People
Political
Guess
See
About
Write
Emotional
Take
Bottomless
Come
Like
Know
Most
Well
Because
Author
Place
Interesting
Social
Them
Interesting Things
Working-Class
Reasons
Things
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
Peter Fenton
Power
Software
Lies
General
Directly
Author
Users
Connecting
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.
Peter York
You
Reading
Enough
Books
Once
Run
Inside
About
More
Never
True
Feel
Like
Know
Around
How
Real
Go
Been
Discovered
Than
Author
Get
Often
Just
Stopped
Literary
Anywhere
Company
Novel
Novelists
Novels
Things
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.
Philip Pullman
Book
Ending
Healthy
Benefit
Everyone
Libraries
Distributor
Ecology
Reader
Trade
Up
Author
Should
Including
Publisher
Starting
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
Book
Thought
Invention
First
Rightly
Finds
Wit
Nor
Than
Author
Being
Less
Applying
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Pierre Bayle
Book
Thought
Invention
First
Aptly
Than
Author
Being
Less
Found
Applying
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
Character
Book
Every
Ways
Characters
Given
Misconception
Writer
Main
Main Character
Identify
Author
Really
Creates
Certain
Proust is a huge author for me.
Rachel Kushner
Me
Proust
Huge
Author
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
Ramez Naam
Innovation
Training
World
Three
Power
Save The World
Resource
Books
About
Computer
Most
Talk
Also
Scientist
Condition
Author
Improve
Infinite
Endorse
Human
Human Condition
Which
Use
Recent
Biotechnology
Save
Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing down' to them, or mimicking their voice poorly, or condescending to them in any way, they will throw the book across the room.
Ransom Riggs
Book
Writing
Smart
Will
Down
Think
Mimicking
Teenagers
Way
Extremely
Voice
Throw
Condescending
Author
Any
Room
Them
Poorly
Across
Even
Second
The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too. The higher you price a book, the more comfortable your publisher will be in paying you a higher royalty.
Ravi Subramanian
You
Book
Will
Too
Record
More
Higher
Price
Track
Track Record
Comfortable
His
Author
Gets
Any
Often
Dependent
Your
Paying
Publisher
Royalty
An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you alive in the public mind and gives a push to your older books.
Ravi Subramanian
Needs
You
Book
Mind
Year
Older
Every
Market
Books
Alive
Out
Gives
Push
He
He Or She
New
Come
New Book
She
Author
Public
Your
Public Mind
Keeps
If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.
Ravi Subramanian
Reading
Books
Supply
Particular
Likes
Reader
His
Shifts
Up
Author
Then
Loyalties
Keep
Kept
Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the idea germinates, by the end of the story, it accounts for hardly anything in the book.
Ravi Subramanian
Book
Events
Circle
Immediate
Seed
Inspired
Idea
Him
His
End
Accounts
Author
Gets
Any
Where
Experiences
Happen
Anything
Story
While
Hardly
The distribution might which Penguin brought to the table and the stature they gave me as an author is unparalleled.
Ravi Subramanian
Me
Gave
Penguin
Stature
Unparalleled
Distribution
Table
Brought
Author
Which
Might
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
Ray Kurzweil
Myself
Entrepreneur
Consider
Inventor
Author
When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.
Rebecca Makkai
You
Appreciation
Experience
Feeling
Kind
Tricks
Find
About
Magician
Something
Never
Had
Come
Talk
Learn
Greater
Always
How
His
Author
Any
Artist
Form
Disillusioned
Explained
Really
Away
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