authors

Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.

If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

True Devdas are Authors

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous word. But that has always been the course of scholasticism in every branch of art. Whatever new thing the 'people' like is poohpoohed; whatever is 'popular' is spoken of as not worth the while. The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

Crazy people love their Kindles.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

there is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude,one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the pool boy.The other half are writing reviews of

Remember, we all make our work available in a commercial transaction, the terms of which we, ourselves, dictate. If we give it away for free, that__ our decision, and there is no refuge in the lame defense, __hat do you want for nothing?_ The buyer does not waive his right to express his opi