Excerpt from Getting on the Confessions of a Publisher
Writing is work, and the hardest kind of work. The man who digs with pick and shovel in the street has an easy job in comparison."
As I thought over his words I wondered if I, too, could not write a book. I believed I had something to say. If the art of writing came by work and work - and yet more work, there was hope for me. Had I not written and rewritten advertisements till they passed muster, and in the end realized large sums? But an advertisement - while it may be a short story - is rather a distant relation of a book. How should I clothe my ideas to fit them for the polite society in leather and cloth on the world's great bookshelf?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Getting on the Confessions of a Publisher (Classic Reprint) (John Adams Thayer)