Writing the Breakout Novel Quotes

“His characters may be cardboard, but each has a clear, uncomplicated purpose. Every moment of the story contributes to building conflict.”
― Donald Maass, Writing the Breakout Novel: Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client

“The next biggest reason folks buy fiction is that it has been personally recommended to them by a friend, family member or bookstore employee. That process is called word of mouth. Savvy publishers understand its power and try to facilitate its effect with advance reading copies (ARCs), samplers, first chapters circulated by e-mail, Web sites and the like.”
― Donald Maass, Writing the Breakout Novel: Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client

“The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.”
― Donald Maass, Writing the Breakout Novel: Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client