Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
From Dean Koontz
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Never, never try to scope the market.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
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