I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can live on just their writing income. Once you break it down to the years it took to write the book, place it, promote it, and you pay the agent, pay the taxes, the annual income is not enough to live on comfortably. I do not have a starving artist inclination. I'm from the working class. I don't feel creative unless I feel like my house is going to be there and I'm going to be fed. I can't worry about money and write. Maybe some people can.
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma. - Debra Monroe
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.
- Debra Monroe
There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder… - Debra Monroe
There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder…
The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about wh… - Debra Monroe
The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about wh…
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it m… - Debra Monroe
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it m…
I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can l… - Debra Monroe
I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can l…
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe thi… - Debra Monroe
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe thi…
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, mem… - Debra Monroe
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, mem…
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and… - Debra Monroe
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and…
I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said so… - Debra Monroe
I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said so…
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