3 Quotes & Sayings By William Jovanovich

William Jovanovich, born in San Francisco in 1943, attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a degree in psychology. He worked for 20 years in advertising and marketing. He developed his approach to writing through his experience working with writers at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Agency. His first book, How to Write a Bestseller, was published in 1978 Read more

Since then, he has written over two dozen books. His latest is The Magic of Thinking Big, which will be published this fall. He lives near San Francisco with his wife, Susan Orlean, who wrote profiles for Vanity Fair magazine on celebrities such as Richard Gere and Madonna.

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Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts. William Jovanovich
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Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light. William Jovanovich