Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
""We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive.""
"I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes."
[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand that it doesn't have to be a Rosemary Rogers or a Danielle Steel. It has to be more 'Gone With The Wind.'
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Published Sources for
the above Quotations:
F:
"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
R:
"In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997."
A:
"Rhett to Scarlett on the next to last page of "Scarlett,""
N:
"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K:
"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."