Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
