Lists Quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Download Open image “When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.” — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lists Pay Writing
I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out. — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“How beautiful a thing is youth Which flees us in every way. Whoever desires to be merry, let him; For tomorrow is never certain.… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“To Trazada's surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. 'Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done… — Deacon Jones Copy Share Image
I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do… — Tina Roth-Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
You look at most of these 'best chef' lists, and there are about nine male chefs and one woman chef. The problem is still… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image