#rite

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry. ↗

#entertainment #entertainment industry #i #i love #industry

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music. ↗

— James Marsters

#created #i #like #make #money

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#expect #fiction #follow #genre #readers

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. ↗

— Yann Martel

#be happy #doing #good #happy #know

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

I am not an autobiographical writer. ↗

— Yann Martel

#autobiographical #i #i am #writer

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #novel #simple #very #write

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

#dances #each #every #i #i write

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. ↗