M. J. Rose Quotes
I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
