J.A. Konrath Professions : Writer Born : 1970 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by J.A. Konrath If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. J.A. Konrath quitting complaining positive You can't be both happy and ambitious. J.A. Konrath ambitious If you can't be smart or funny, be brief. J.A. Konrath being-smart smart ifs All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals. J.A. Konrath writing giving character Before you make the key, study the lock. J.A. Konrath locks study keys As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are. J.A. Konrath alive lucky imagination Never having something is different than having something and losing it. J.A. Konrath different losing 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, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. J.A. Konrath anxiety complaining two Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it. J.A. Konrath writing book people Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters. J.A. Konrath bronte sides helping Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. J.A. Konrath essentials publishers reader There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published. J.A. Konrath giving-up stress success 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 meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death. J.A. Konrath ice august race 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 makes them try harder. J.A. Konrath fire trying people Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change. J.A. Konrath fate enough trying 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 hit by a Pizza Express truck. J.A. Konrath dad sorry heart 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 you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane. J.A. Konrath hemorrhoids might giving Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
