"If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that."
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"If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that."
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"I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist."
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"What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book."
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"Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking."
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"Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame."
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"When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace."
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"I never imagined I'd write a book."
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"I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry."
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"I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books about Arctic exploration or about doomed Apollo missions. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction that's sort of hyperbolic and visceral. And then I kind of draw on my own personal experiences and my own sort of generic life experience, and I kind of try to feed my day-to-day reality that I have with sort of high stakes reference points that I read about. They're things everyone can relate to."
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"By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible."
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"...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives."
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"A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male."
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"Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them."
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"I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself."
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"Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre."
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"Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?"
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"I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat."
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"Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail."
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"Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!"
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