Bob Mayer Quotes

#1. One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

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#2. As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

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#3. I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

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#4. Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

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#5. I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

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#6. Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

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#7. In darkness there is death.

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#8. The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.

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#9. The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

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#10. I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

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#11. First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

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#12. Writing is a lonely profession.

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#13. Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character).

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#14. There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know.

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#15. The FedEx truck backed into the driveway with an irritating beeping. The team was ready, combat gear on, locked, and loaded.

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#16. A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

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#17. I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

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#18. Content is King. Promotion is Queen

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