Adam-Troy Castro Quotes

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

Literature has become my life.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.