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Why I Write: Seth Kugel
The journalist and former NYT Frugal Traveler champions the thrill of discovery.
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The Life Cycle of a Book
Author-illustrator Elisha Cooper reflects on the bookmaking process, from initial idea to finished product.
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Why I Write: Jane Bryant Quinn
The Emmy Award–winning financial journalist describes the roots of her passion “to help consumers make their way safely through the jungle of Big Money.”
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Why I Write...Radclyffe: Romance 2015
I haven’t always been a writer, but I have always written. When asked why I write, I don’t answer the way many authors do. I don’t write because I have to. I write because I love to.
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Why I Write: Ryka Aoki
It sounds hokey, but I write because I love people. I love listening to people, hearing new stories, learning from different experiences.
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Why I Write...Clark Elliott: Health Books 2015
In 1999 I was in a car crash that left me with brain trauma from a concussion.
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Why I Write...Lachlan Smith: Mysteries & Thrillers 2015
I went to law school for bad reasons. I’d finished my M.F.A. and run through my Stegner Fellowship without landing a book contract or a teaching job, and I needed cover: more time to write, and the possibility of making a living at the end of it.
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Why I Write: Bryan Voltaggio
My first cookbook, Volt Ink (Olive Press, 2011), documented life in a kitchen in a New American restaurant. I wrote it with my brother, Michael, when we were running our restaurants, Volt and Ink, and battling spatula-à-spatula on Top Chef.
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Why I Write: Tony Robbins: Personal Finance 2014
For the last two decades I have sworn off the publishing process.
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Why I Write...Val McDermid: Mysteries & Thrillers 2014
Polar bears are obligate carnivores. If they don’t eat animal protein, they sicken and die. In the same way, I feel like an obligate writer.
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Why I Write...Zuri Day: Romance 2014
Last night, I was almost asleep when he tip-toed into the room, gently lay down beside me, and pulled me into his arms.
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Why I Write...Marcus Samuelsson: Fall 2014 Cookbooks
Growing up, I always thought my strongest talents were on the soccer field.
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Kobo Writing Life Now Carries 250,000 titles by 30,000 Authors
Two years after its launch, Kobo Writing Life (KWL), e-book retailer Kobo’s self-publishing channel, carries more than 250,000 self-published digital titles by over 30,000 authors who publish regularly through KWL.
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Why I Write...Sarah Castille: Romance 2014
Look. Over there. The hot dude on the bench. The one we saw last week, who asked if you were looking for a good time. And of course you said yes, because aren’t we all looking for a good time?
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Why I Write...James Presley: The Allure of Serial Killers
Few mysteries are as perplexing as serial murders.
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Why I Write...Charles and Caroline Todd: Mysteries 2014
Caroline Todd: There’s never been a why for me. The desire to write has been a part of me since I was seven.
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Why I Write...Alfie Kohn: Parenting Books 2014
Is it possible that a hint of self-congratulation adheres to the fact that we writers like to pose this question to ourselves?
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Michael Ruhlman: The Art of the Single-Subject Cookbook
The dictum "write what you know" may work in fiction, but if I had followed it in writing about food and cooking, I’d have put a gun to my head long ago. How soul-crushingly boring it would be simply to transcribe information you already knew.
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Why I Write...Max Allan Collins: Mysteries & Thrillers 2013
Many writers have a glib comeback for this question.
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Why I Write...Marilyn Pappano: Romance 2013
When I told my mom the news of my very first book sale, she heaved a sigh of relief. “So you’re not weird, after all. You’re a writer, and writers are supposed to be eccentric.”
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