The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don’t know why. Imagination is not of interest.
Never use ‘submit’ as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say ‘offer,’ and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
First-book novelists and storywriters haven’t yet failed and so it’s easier to publish them – you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.
It’s hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.
I’m an amateur, so I read what’s interesting to me.
Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it’s like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
Good art is a form of prayer. It’s a way to say what is not sayable.
I don’t think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
I know important literary writers who can’t get published.
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