There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
From James Lee Burke
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
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