James Patterson holds the record for most 1 New York Times bestsellers by a single author. But if you read his memoir, he says you'll see that he doesn't care about accolades.
Passion keeps you going . . . but it doesn’t pay the rent
As I said, I was driving myself crazy. It goes with the territory. I think that’s what first-time novelists are supposed to do. Our rite of passage. Every night after work, I’d come home in a daze of jingle lyrics and cutesy catchphrases, sit in my kitchen, stare around at the tiny antiseptic space, then start writing again. I’d go till eleven or twelve. That’s how I wrote The Thomas Berryman Number.But then I typed. The two-finger minuet.
I got rejections. Mostly form letters. A couple of handwritten notes from editors that were encouraging. One publisher, Mor- row, held on to the manuscript for two months before rejecting it. With a form letter.
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