“In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.” PeopleWayFirstsHas BeensBookLiteratureHarderHardestContractsHardest ThingPublicists Author:Neil Gaiman
“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.” ThinkingFirstsMayTeachStudentsPaperFinalsHardestEditingVagueHardest ThingIdentification Author:M. H. Abrams