A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
It's actually very difficult to come up with a new name for something that hasn't already been bagged by someone else, unless you call your new show 'Shubbley-Doobley-Woobley' or something like that!
Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
A good title is a work of a genius!
And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and hopefully they don't come at the very end because then it's getting late in the day.
It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.
I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.
I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
After a while, you become really irritated that you're not recognised as the person who wrote 'The Full Monty.' Everyone goes on about how lovely the characters are. That's because they were written! 'What a clever title.' Yeah, that's because I made up the title!
Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.
I love making up titles.
The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
Good titles are hard, people. Just ask the guy who came up with 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.'
The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like, so...I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.
I think titles are tricky because they're like a really short ad for the book. And like an ad, they should open the door in a way that might be more accessible than the book itself. So I always like titles to be familiar. I'm not trying to break ground with the title itself. The title should feel like something already celebrated.
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience is when it comes in the middle.
I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.
The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.
First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.
