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I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

— Genevieve Gorder

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

— Timothy Ferriss

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

— Jan Karon

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

— Roy Blount, Jr.

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date, you're going to have an awful lot of copies out there in time for that. You'd have to be simple-minded not to do that - although bookselling prior to 1950 never made that connection.

— Michael Korda

I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

✗Opposing Perspectives

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

— Antony Beevor

I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!

— Sarah Dessen

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

— Alice Walker