Victoria Strauss Quotes
Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
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There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.
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Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.
