"I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book."

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Source : On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

Elizabeth Hand

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Marketing Quotes

“I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.”
“You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind”
“The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.”
“We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.”
“I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.”
“Happiness never becomes a habit.”
“Love is a powerful painkiller.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC
“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”

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