11th July 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, thriller, writing, reaching your audience, publishing, Brad Meltzer |
"Even my publisher will say they just want more thrillers. That's what feeds my family. But I feel like if I did that, I wouldn't be being true to myself."
"The X factor on every page is, does the writer love what they're writing about? Anything you love that you've read in your life, from Page 1, you feel the writer's passion. That's the thing that you can't put your finger on."
"You have to write what is in your heart and your mind and your imagination, and that's the place where it has to come from. I don't think that looking at what sells is the way to start a novel or a work of nonfiction. I get about 200 books a week at my house. I'm always waiting to be surprised or bowled over. You don't want to be bored."
"Don't censor yourself. Don't chase trends. Write whatever is in your heart. If it's honest, you will find an audience."
"I didn't follow my gut. After that, I said, I'm never doing that again. And the book after that, when I went back to doing what I wanted to do, wound up being, at that point in time, the bestselling book we ever did."
"Have the courage to go forth and do not what everybody else is doing but what you want to do."
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