Jack Carr
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And so they need to make their numbers.
And so as a creative person, they are putting a lot of pressure to get it done.
And I have to fend it off.
I have to, like, be, hey, whatever pressure is put on me from the outside, I've got to focus on this story.
And it's going to be done when it's done.
Because it has to be the best that it can possibly be.
But that's a lot of pressure coming in from the outside.
And you have to fend it off.
But I can see it being very easy to just say, okay, I got to 100,000 words.
I got to wrap this thing up.
My readers mean too much to me.
The story means too much to me.
This profession means too much for me to ever do something like that.
I don't know, because I don't look at the numbers.
I'm more of an entrepreneurial type of mind.
So just knowing that Simon & Schuster is incredibly happy across the board.