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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure - and the lifestyle is very conducive to making fast, close friends.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.
- Each
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use an e-reader when I'm traveling: I love carrying dozens of books on a small lightweight device, and I'm still amazed every time I purchase and immediately start reading a new title without leaving my hotel room - in another country!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give tremendous weight to my positive reviews and none whatsoever to my negative ones.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear to me that I was a very poor writer and could've ruined my career before it even started.
- Constructive Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript better, people who've made careers out of providing careful, constructive criticism to writers. I'm tremendously grateful to them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020