My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
I want to write a best-selling book.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.