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There's a fairy story called the 'The Shoemaker and the Elves' where this old cobbler keeps leaving leather out overnight and wakes up the next day, and there's a new pair of shoes. Co-authoring is a little like that. You send off the manuscript to your partner, and a few days later, you check your email, and hey, there's more book in here!
Jay Kristoff
Day
You
Book
Old
Partner
Shoes
Few
Elves
Later
Email
Hey
Out
More
Check
New
Days
Like
Fairy
Leather
Leaving
Overnight
Off
Wakes
Up
Send
Where
Story
Little
Next
Your
Manuscript
Pair
Keeps
Here
According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.
Jay Leno
Book
Money
Will
Sex
Hers
Some
More
New
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Well
Got
Least
Duh
His
Clinton
According
Than
Get
York
New York
Bill
Bill Clinton
Publishers
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Jay London
Buy
Book
Hair
Out
Falling
Loss
Going
Pages
Kept
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
Jay McInerney
Book
Think
Ellis
Pretty
About
My Friend
Remain
Excellent
New
Friend
American
York
New York
Psycho
Fan
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.
Jay McInerney
Book
Think
Book Tour
Angeles
About
More
Network
Tour
Idea
Over
Learn
Houses
Houston
Los
Los Angeles
Blogging
Author
Model
Get
Sending
Anymore
Literary
Informal
Successful
Certainly
Publishing
Dallas
As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.
Jay Parini
Great
Book
Men
Our
Carry
Inside
Having
River
Unconscious
Read
Huge
Itself
Mice
Forever
Moves
Literature
Us
Sea
Works
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
Jayne Anne Phillips
Work
Book
See
Continuum
Moving
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Book
Language
French
Because
Becomes
Hit
Author
Same
Goes
Movies
International
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean de la Bruyere
Good
Thoughts
You
Book
Made
Manly
Other
Seek
Spirit
Excellence
Inspires
Noble
Test
Your
Workman
Raises
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson
Work
Love
Book
World
Sum
About
Writer
Consumes
Academics
Make
His
Body
Theories
Each
Her
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
Jeannette Walls
Book
People
Reading
Enjoy
Mental
Develop
Share
Always
List
Whenever
Want
The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'
Jed Mercurio
Book
Problems
Think
Physical
About
Idea
Wrote
How
Stigma
Lot
Quite
Psychological
Bodies
Body
Appealing
It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.
Jeff Abbott
Good
Me
Feel Good
Book
Writing
Try
Will
Job
Single
Control
Worry
One Book
Follow
About
Uncommon
Writer
Generally
Part
Feel
Well
Tidings
Readers
Because
Stick
Get
Then
Much
Next
Publicity
Ton
You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.
Jeff Abbott
You
Book
Writing
Try
Job
Single
Sit
Control
Down
Worry
One Book
About
Uncommon
Write
Writer
Part
Because
Get
Just
Mean
Then
Much
Next
Publicity
Ton
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
Jeff Bezos
Book
People
Container
Narrative
Itself
Create
Really
Thing
My life is pretty much an open book.
Jeff Conaway
Life
Book
My Life
Pretty
Open
Open Book
Much
We have rules in the rule book that are very specific. If the quarterback is in a throwing position, he gets protection. But in the event that the ball is handed off, at that instant, there's no telling whether or not he is a runner or not, so he loses that protection.
Jeff Fisher
Book
Protection
Rule
Rule Book
Rules
Telling
Runner
Throwing
He
Instant
Ball
Quarterback
Loses
Off
Handed
Very
Gets
Whether
Event
Specific
Position
When I closed the chapter, I'll say, in the book with TNA in 2013, literally within, it was under 30 days - it was 20, 25 days - I was already into a production agreement with a production company based out of Los Angeles.
Jeff Jarrett
Book
Chapter
Closed
Say
Out
Angeles
Days
Within
Los
Los Angeles
Literally
Production
Production Company
Company
Agreement
Based
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
Jeff Kinney
Me
Book
Writing
Thinking
Back
Adult
Written
Look
Years
Childhood
Eight
Children
Nostalgic
Informed
Then
Publisher
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Jeff Kinney
Life
Truth
Time
You
Truth Is
Book
Writing
Ugly
Matter
Definitely
Tell
Some
About
Knowing
Audience
Subject
Subject Matter
Person
Different
Puberty
Awfulness
Second
Third
I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.
Jeff Kinney
Waiting
Book
Three
Kids
Signed
Bad
Charismatic
Feel
Hours
Line
Very
I never really approach any project or story thinking of themes first or what a certain character 'represents.' Maybe other writers do, but for me, it just starts with the characters and a certain emotion I want to convey. It usually isn't until I get deeper into a book and look back a bit that I start to see the themes, etc.
Jeff Lemire
Character
Me
Book
First
Thinking
Starts
Other
Approach
Back
Project
Bit
Characters
See
Emotion
Writers
Never
Look
Until
Get
Any
Maybe
Just
Represents
Want
Story
Etc
Convey
Themes
Really
Certain
Deeper
Start
When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
Jeff Lemire
You
Book
Try
First
Imitate
Intimidating
Worst
Worst Thing
Critically
Could
Because
Version
End
Very
Offered
Commercially
Get
Did
Going
Just
Loved
In The End
Successful
Thing
I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.
Jeff Lemire
Book
Cartoonists
Feel
Like
Comic
Comic Book
Artists
Then
Who
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Jeffery Deaver
Book
Spend
Months
About
Outlining
Eight
Researching
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
Jeffery Deaver
Book
Sit
Down
Easy
Percent
Outline
Write
Part
Then
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