A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.