Writer’s Frequently Asked Questions

S5E9 – How Do I Help Authors I Support?

Every book, ever volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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S5 Bonus – Battle of the Hosts: Adverbs

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. – Daniel Handler

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. – Stephen King

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S5E8 – Is it All in My Head?

I think new authors are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. – Asha Dornfest

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S5E7 – What’s the Difference? Traditional vs. Self-Publishing

Books have a publishing standard, and every indie author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded. – Eeva Lancaster

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S5E6 – How Do I Become a Writer? Pt. 2

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. – Oscar Wilde

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S5E5 – How Do I Become a Writer?

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham

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S5E4 – Is it Okay if I Write _____?

I had to come to terms with the fact that writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it. I would not commit adultery, but I wanted to write a whole book about an affair. I know it sounds simpleminded, but I actually had to have a conversation with myself about this in the beginning, convincing myself that it was alright to depict this affair. – Jonellen Heckler

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S5E3 – Is Time a Construct or an Illusion?

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny – Alain de Botton

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S5E2 – Am I a Terrible Writer?

Describing your writing as trash while you’re still drafting is like looking at a bag of flour and an egg and saying “My cake tastes like crap.” – Paul Grealish

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S5E1 – What’s in a Name?

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague…. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare

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