I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.