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Self-publishing authors are rocking Hollywood!

May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 357

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.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

Christopher Hampton

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Jodi Picoult

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Stan Lee

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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.

Mark Twain

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

William Shawn

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Gloria Steinem

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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