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Selling books is hard. The more you understand that, the more respect you should have for someone who sells a ton of them. Especially if you work in a book store.

That is flat out wrong. In fact, I believe that the books sucess is due to it's themes. Like the sacred feminine and the humanity of Christ. The themes are highly accessible. Most Grade 10 readers realize that the book discusses the sacred feminine. Most of them can tell you that the sacred...

I'll never figure out why choosing words that many people can't understand is considered good writing. Why write, if not to be understood?

This critique always makes me laugh. You're criticizing a work of fiction, for being fictional.

I think I can handle it. We'll see.

And you were wrong. Theme: A topic of discourse or discussion. A subject of artistic representation. An implicit or recurrent idea; a motif. Plot: The pattern of events or main story in a narrative or drama. The sacred feminine is not an event. It is an implicit or recurrent...

"Though, after looking at the pictures, I thought it made me look fat." Very funny.

It's a book about a quest for a Holy Grail, that ends by telling you where the Holy Grail is hidden. That's interesting to me and 25 million people. It's themes are interesting. The theme of the sacred feminine is particularly interesting and relevant at a time when an evangelical Christian...

It's better if you delete the first three sentences. A white horse broke from the bushes by the lake. Its rider, dead, hung only by the leather footholds of his saddle.

My parents just saw the Lord of the Rings musical. They said that it was good but not great. The sets are apparently spectacular. They also liked the combination of digital sound effects with a live orchestra. It was a sell out. Wabbit should be a producer.

The Simpson's parody was pretty good.

I'd say the keys are probably the same as any scene: conflict, believability, suspense.

When I check to see how many pages are left its usually not a good sign. It usually means that I'm getting bored and am trying to decide whether or not I want to hang in there until the end. Occasionally, however, I do it because I'm enjoying the book so much that I can't believe everything...

I think there are better questions to ask. For example, which details would the character notice? (It is interesting if different characters notice different things.) Which details create suspense? (If you're writing a thriller, it's probably a good idea to mention the knife in the kitchen.)...

I think that was ripped off from Dylan, "He who is not busy being born, is busy dying." (But maybe when you're as successful as Stephen King you earn the right to have it referred to as an "homage.")

I agree. Owen Meany was my favorite, but if your into lost body parts, Garp is memorable.

As long as every word is interesting, or entertaining, or at least serves some purpose, I don't care how many there are.

I went to a party once. Everyone who had kids was divorced. Everyone who didn't have kids was still married. I guess it could've been a coincidence.

"The results of this research, a selection of which is summarized in the chart below, have found that rates of manic depression and cyclothymia, its milder form, are 10 to 20 percent higher among artists than expected for the general population.(1) Manic depression therefore occurs far more...

There is gravitational pull on the earth, by the sun for example. I believe that the net gravitional pull, however, is zero. I'm not exactly sure why.