It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.