Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 6:38:10 GMT
Who knows why writing books is still seen - despite it being said for many years that there are more writers than readers - as a... strange achievement . Strange because a little out of the ordinary, something that our neighbor or someone in our circle of family, friends, relatives hardly does. If you try to tell someone you know that you have written a book, you will find yourself looking at a half-smiling expression, somewhere between momentary amazement and reverential admiration. But then everything passes and amazement and admiration, just as they had appeared, vanish in the blink of an eye and in the next - blink of an eye - the questions begin. Absurd questions, if you will.
Questions that never occurred to me. Yet I received them. Did they ask you to write it? Sure, my name is Stephen King and all the big publishers are competing to publish me. Yet… why not? There have certainly been cases of publishers asking some professional to write an essay or an established novelist to write a novel. But we are talking about well-known Special Data characters. No publishing house will ever ask an ordinary nobody to write anything. Did you have to pay? Of course, that's how you publish. Not a single person has asked me this question. There is this idea going around, therefore, that an author must pay to publish. You know what I think about paid publishing: that it is not publishing, but typography.
Perhaps the masses mistake publishing houses for printing houses. Why did you write it? I heard rumors… This is the most absurd question for me. Also because I really didn't know what to answer. Why did you write the books you wrote? Or why do you want to write the books you want to write? Can there be an answer? No, not for me. Writing is an art form. When art calls, it goes along. Why am I writing my science fiction novel, which is running at a nice 60%? I have no idea. Perhaps the right answer to the question “Why did you write that book?” is “Why shouldn't I have written that?”. And the answer to “Why are you writing that book?” is “Why shouldn't I?”. And what book would that be? Full of words, stuff you wouldn't believe! Another question that leaves me… speechless .
Questions that never occurred to me. Yet I received them. Did they ask you to write it? Sure, my name is Stephen King and all the big publishers are competing to publish me. Yet… why not? There have certainly been cases of publishers asking some professional to write an essay or an established novelist to write a novel. But we are talking about well-known Special Data characters. No publishing house will ever ask an ordinary nobody to write anything. Did you have to pay? Of course, that's how you publish. Not a single person has asked me this question. There is this idea going around, therefore, that an author must pay to publish. You know what I think about paid publishing: that it is not publishing, but typography.
Perhaps the masses mistake publishing houses for printing houses. Why did you write it? I heard rumors… This is the most absurd question for me. Also because I really didn't know what to answer. Why did you write the books you wrote? Or why do you want to write the books you want to write? Can there be an answer? No, not for me. Writing is an art form. When art calls, it goes along. Why am I writing my science fiction novel, which is running at a nice 60%? I have no idea. Perhaps the right answer to the question “Why did you write that book?” is “Why shouldn't I have written that?”. And the answer to “Why are you writing that book?” is “Why shouldn't I?”. And what book would that be? Full of words, stuff you wouldn't believe! Another question that leaves me… speechless .