I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.Ann Patchett
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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