J.A. Konrath Quotes

• If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

  J.A. Konrath

  Positive, Complaining, Quitting

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• Before you make the key, study the lock.

  J.A. Konrath

  Keys, Locks, Study

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• Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

  J.A. Konrath

  Fate, Trying, Enough

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• Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

  J.A. Konrath

  Different, Losing

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• 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, Character, Giving

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• 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, People, Trying

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• 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

  Two, Anxiety, Complaining

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• There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

  J.A. Konrath

  Success, Giving Up, Stress

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• You can't be both happy and ambitious.

  J.A. Konrath

  Ambitious

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• If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

  J.A. Konrath

  Smart, Being Smart, Ifs

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• 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

  Giving, Might, Hemorrhoids

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• 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

  Race, August, Ice

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• Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

  J.A. Konrath

  Book, Writing, People

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• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  J.A. Konrath

  Essentials, Reader, Publishers

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• 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.

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  Imagination, Lucky, Alive

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• 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

  Sorry, Dad, Heart

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• Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

  J.A. Konrath

  Sides, Helping, Bronte

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