My Fourteen Semi-Brilliant Quotations for Working Authors

by Jay Payleitner

  1. “IF YOU WRITE, GO AHEAD AND CALL YOURSELF A WRITER.” 
  2. “IF YOU CALL YOURSELF A WRITER, EMBRACE WRITING OF ALL KINDS.”
  3. “DOING SOMETHING WELL LEADS TO MORE CHANCES TO DOING SOMETHING WELL.”
  4. “YOU’RE AN AUTHOR WHEN SOMEONE YOU’VE NEVER MET BUYS A COPY OF YOUR BOOK.”
  5. “THERE ARE A PLETHORA OF WAYS TO LAND A BOOK CONTRACT.”
  6. “IT’S YOUR BOOK, BUT SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO LET GO.”
  7. “CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING SHOULD BE MINISTRY, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE RUN AS A BUSINESS.”
  8. “DON’T WORRY ABOUT A PUBLISHER STEALING YOUR IDEA.”
  9. “A PROFESSIONAL WRITER NEVER SUCCUMBS TO WRITER’S BLOCK.”
  10. “SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO KILL YOUR DARLINGS.”
  11. “EVERY CO-AUTHOR THINKS THEY DID MOST OF THE WORK.”
  12. “WARNING: GHOSTWRITING FEELS A LITTLE LIKE PROSTITUTION”
  13. “WITHOUT DEADLINES, I WOULDN’T WRITE ANYTHING”
  14. “WRITING OPENS DOORS TO SPEAKING AND SPEAKING OPENS DOORS TO WRITING”