“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBookCharacterHandsRunningTurnsHoursNovelCuttingFiguresWillingReturnReaderPagesLaysErrorsPostsOnlineCopiesPromotingPrintedEditsSpineOutputReturn To Me Author:Cory Doctorow
“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.” GivingWritingTryingMayBookStoriesBigsRealityValuesReadingGoalNovelFiveFourReturnIllusionSizeShort Story Author:James Clavell
“The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.” FeelsHeartPersonsBookCountryReadingHouseLossNovelReturnIncludingOneselfImprovementTiedBook ReadingTied Up Book:Occasional prose Source: Occasional prose
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.” PersonsHomeMightCareVisionNovelReturnEncountersPermit Author:Thomas C Foster
“One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.” WayWritingI CanWholeStoriesFeelingsCertainSongFoundEnjoyCan DoMy OwnNovelOne ThingReturnRadioTime TravelEerieRereading Author:Philip K. Dick
“Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.” StoriesNovelReturn Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country.” YearsLittlesCountryStatesRealityNamesNationsCitiesNovelWrittenReturnHundredYears AgoTitlesBookshelvesZion Author:Amos Oz
“[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.” WarPlayHomeMotherNovelAliveWrittenHappenedReturnPromiseBirdMy FriendsSoldierIraqYellowIraq WarKevinReckoningVets Author:Alden Ehrenreich