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Self-publishing authors are rocking Hollywood!

May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 379

How do you get known? Consider the example of e-book author Mark Dawson. His first novel sold poorly until Amazon suggested that he offer it for free. BOOM! Fifty thousand downloads in one weekend. That built name recognition and an audience for the second e-book. Pretty neat strategy, eh? The resulting name recognition led to a TV series deal.

Read all about it at The Guardian.

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.