After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
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There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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