Maria Popova shares advice from authors on her Brain Pickings site. Here's Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short: "Commercial success makes writing books a lot easier to do, and it also creates pressure to be more of a commercial success. If you sold a million books once, your publisher really, really thinks you might sell a million books again. And they really want you to do it. That dynamic has the possibility of constraining the imagination."
January 5, 2014