Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
No one likes my books except the public.
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle; they read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy any more. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.