Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

Publishing is a tough business.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

Writing a book is an adventure.

I spend about a year between novels.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.