“Someone once gave me this advice and they said, if you’re a writer, you write. Now what that means is that you don’t write because you have this ideal that you’re going to write the great American novel. Uh, just go ahead and write because you...
“The words that I was saying to myself, whenever I doubted, I would say, ‘Why not me?’ You go into these stores and you see all these New York Times bestsellers and you think, ‘Oh, I can never do that.’ And then I started saying,...
“…understand the difference between art and commerce. When you’re writing, you’re writing a piece of art, right? It’s your artistic side. But when it comes to whether you’re self-publishing or whether you’re traditionally...
