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Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

There are several occupational hazards for book reviewers, chief among them being the Curse of the Jaded Palate - that sinking feeling when you start reading a new book and begin to suspect that you've seen it all before.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.