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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.
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