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If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.

~Dave Morris

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There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Good Good Stories Great Hunger Insatiable Media Stories Throughout

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Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Authors Became Because Better Champion Clear Eager Else Ever Made Nobody Nobody Else Nothing Own Person Publicity Publishers Somebody Story Than Then Up Want Were Who Willing You

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Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Authors Become Bright Idea More Need Out Prose Requires Standing Than Today Well Writer

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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

~Dave Morris

Topics: First Hammer Heavy Home Library Memory Myths Public Public Library Volume

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As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Change Demand Get Go Must Older Somewhere Stories Things

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'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Bad Blaze Breaking Breaking Bad Come Down Fireworks Narrative Planned Right Shield Start Trajectory Were Would

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It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Easy Force Hand-In-Hand Interact Letting Making Reader Story Them Trick Unfold Viewer Want

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Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

~Dave Morris

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One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.

~Dave Morris

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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