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I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.

— Simon Schama

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.

— Judy Blume

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

— Lorde

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

— Dick Schaap

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

— Mary Karr

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

— Alexandra Fuller

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

— James Mercer

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never listened to any of my audiobooks, but I'm very, very happy that they've received such excellent feedback from readers!

— Julie Kenner