Rejection taught me to keep going and try something new. Publishing is all about persevering and trying new things when the old ones fail.
Kristen Callihan
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Monday Motivational
Get up, get up, there are worlds to conquer.
Victoria “V.E.” Schwab
Monday Motivational
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day…you don’t go to a well once but daily.
Walter Mosley
Monday Motivational
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov
Monday Motivational
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
Monday Motivational
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Robert Frost
Monday Motivational
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days.
J.K. Rowling
Monday Motivational
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
Monday Motivational
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing–writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
Lawrence Block
Monday Motivational
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
