A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.
I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'