A Quote by J. A. Konrath

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

J. A. Konrath

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J. A. Konrath
American - Writer
Born: 1970

It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

Howard G. Hendricks

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

Maria Teresa Horta

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

Gautama Buddha

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Jackie Collins

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

Peter Schjeldahl

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

Leo Buscaglia

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

Jonathan Galassi

There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down to what is merely essential to tell the story, it would be butchery. The end result would horrify you. Essential is the bones of the story, but the soul lives somewhere else.

Patrick Rothfuss

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

Eric Greitens

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

Tim O'Brien

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Sydney Pollack

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.