- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.
- Greenwich Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020