Midlist Quotes

#1. I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds with any frequency. The problem for us is getting people to read and care about our books that much in the first place.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

J.A. Konrath

#4. I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.

Teresa Medeiros

#5. And before that, there was, oh, I don't know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It's always something.

John Scalzi

#6. When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Marge Piercy

#7. They met at one of the Bouchercon mystery conferences. Love among the midlist. "It's raining cats and dogs!" Ted announced, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing they write.

Josh Lanyon

#8. Role-playing situations work well for many parents. After deprivation or prenatal exposure to substance, many children have verbal instruction as their weakest learning area, but many have role playing as their strongest.

Deborah D. Gray

#9. Our currency is what we are able to make.

Robert Genn

#10. The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

Ezra Miller

#11. Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology.

Zaman Ali

#12. You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

Isabel Gillies

#13. Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

Hal Borland

#14. A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

Luke Bryan

#15. I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.

Bruce LaBruce

#16. Send silent blessings to those that oppose you, so they may also find peace within themselves - and the strength and perseverance to embark on their life path.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#17. thrust deep inside her body,

Kristin Hannah

#18. Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings