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I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
John Searles
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Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.
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I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.
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I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.
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My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
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At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
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I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.
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I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
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I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
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I don't write to a genre.
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