M.J. Rose Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by M.J. Rose
M.J. Rose Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from M.J. Rose on Wise Famous Quotes.
Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
I think that we need to live our lives for the present ... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
If ... if there is reincarnation, it's about forward motion. It has to be, or else we would all be forever stuck in the past.
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
If you want to talk to God, it's best to do it where you don't have to shout to have yourself heard.
(T)here is a record in the universe and that if we're attuned to it, we can go back and see it, hear it again, use it.
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
Men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.
As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
(S)cents connects us to a past we can't always see, that seems lost but can so easily be conjured up and found.
Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher
No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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