J.A. Konrath Quotes

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• There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.
• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
• Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
• Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
• Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit,…
• All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
• Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give…
• Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was…
• Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
• Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that…
• Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This…
• If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

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