Picking the right name for a book is about more than what sounds good to you or what feels right for the story. It is important to look at the title as part of your marketing. Along with the cover, titles will draw in the readers at first glance. And because it’s part of marketing,…
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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half
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I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest. – Kurt Vonnegut
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Making sure that geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right. – Michael Scott
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Books. It’s always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would’ve said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling. – Joyce Rachelle
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