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the material instead of the other way
around.* The writer who is serious and committed is inca-
pable of sizing up story material the way an investor might
size up various stock offeringspicking out the ones which
seem likely to provide a good return. If it could indeed be
done that wayevery novel published would be a best-seller
and the huge advances paid to a dozen or so “big-name writ-
ers” would not exist (publishers would like that).
GrishamClancyCrichtonand myself—among others—
are paid these large sums of money because we are selling
uncommonly large numbers of books to uncommonly large
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*Kirby McCauleymy ?rst real agentused to quote science ?ction writer
Alfred Bester (The Stars My DestinationThe Demolished Man)
on this sub-
ject. “The book is the boss” Al?e used to say in tones indicating that that
closed the subject.
audiences. A critical assumption is sometimes made that we
have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often
better) writers either cannot ?nd or will not deign to use. I
doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some
popular novelists (although she was not the only oneI am
thinking of the late Jacqueline Susann) that [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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