“I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.” BelieveStillsRememberArtistI BelieveMysteryReadyProductsSellsI Believe InGoing OutTweetI Still Believe Author:Romeo Santos
“Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.” ShouldMysterySellsBuyersStock Exchange Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929 Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.” IfsNeedsShouldBookAmericaGivenChanceMysteryTasteSucceedShould HaveSellsAshamedTrash Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
“Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.” IfsWorldWritingYearsFirstsChildrenStillsTwoBookHomeAbleWantedSchoolJobsNextFictionMysteryYears AgoSellsScaryQuittingJournalismIf I CouldI QuitThe Next OneSmall ChildNever RegretBest Of Both Worlds Author:Mary Kay Andrews
“Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” IfsWritingFirstsBookEndsLastsNextLiteratureMysteryMiddlePagesSellsDetective FictionLetdowns Author:Mickey Spillane
“As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.” IfsWritingBookSometimesHardMightNightFictionMysteryInfluenceDramaSellsHistoricalWesternContemporaryGenreSettlingHard TimesConsiderationHistorical FictionJournalDescribingStandpointBookstoresReviewers Author:Elizabeth Crook
“When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.” ThinkingHeartKindPersonsMadeMovingUsedNightBornMysteryHollywoodSellsHolesBunchProducersGloriousLaughedDishesTicketsThinking Love Author:Stephen King