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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

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.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

I want to write a best-selling book.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.