Post by Faye on Jan 12, 2007 5:18:05 GMT 10
Recently, I fell into conversation with the friend of a groom at a wedding. When he asked what I did, I told him I was an author. He looked skyward. "Ah yes," he said. "An author. Well, we all have a book in us, don't we?" I had to tell him that the book was not in me any more; it was in lorries on its way to Waterstone's.
(Kate Williams, author of England's Mistress, a biography of Lady Emma Hamilton, writing in Mslexia magazine)
That quote has had me thinking all day about the crass remarks writers have thrown at them, and so I decided to open the floor in my public blog and compile a list of writers' most hated remarks. It can be found here: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=144423417&blogID=216200015&MyToken=648e3165-2c56-442c-80a8-cf28b483a96e , so please comment either on that entry or this one if you have any to add - I'll edit them into the list.
(Kate Williams, author of England's Mistress, a biography of Lady Emma Hamilton, writing in Mslexia magazine)
That quote has had me thinking all day about the crass remarks writers have thrown at them, and so I decided to open the floor in my public blog and compile a list of writers' most hated remarks. It can be found here: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=144423417&blogID=216200015&MyToken=648e3165-2c56-442c-80a8-cf28b483a96e , so please comment either on that entry or this one if you have any to add - I'll edit them into the list.
I think if I were to be faced with that old chestnut about everyone having a book in them, I'd be tempted to say "Well come on, let's see it". Either they'd be spurred into actually doing something instead of just moaning about it, or they'd realise that it isn't as easy as they might have thought.