Sarah Weinman Quotes

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be.

The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the manuscript. Once all these changes are identified, a second-pass proof is made, and this, too, gets sent to the author and the proofreader, and the process begins anew.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

I'm a slow reader.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

I read three books a week.

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.