Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by J.A. Konrath

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.

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

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.

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.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

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

Before you make the key, study the lock.

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

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

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

Never having something is different than having something and losing 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, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

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.

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.

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

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