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Write Good or Die QUOTES

Write Good or Die QUOTES

1 " Readers respond to authenticity, originality and excitement, even if it’s not packaged in a way they expect. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

2 " good writing inspires me to write and bad writing provokes me to write. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

3 " Like it or not, people say "no" more than they say “yes. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

4 " Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends. That’s how I’ve become a successful author. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

5 " Pick up any popular hack novel, and I need not mention any names, because there are probably several dozen in your immediate vicinity. Open it and read the first page. By the third paragraph, something is happening. Nine times out of ten, it is something important, life and death, love or loss, something that makes you want to know more. Something that makes you—GOTCHA—turn the page. As writers, we are often tempted to impress other writers with our stylistic genius. Believe me, I’m still enough of an average reader to know that we don’t care about your genius. We want a story, we want it fast, and we want it to teach us something about being human. We don’t care what you mean to New York. All we care about is what your story means to us. The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed. We want a hack, and if you deliver the goods, we’ll keep coming back to gather around your campfire again and again. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

6 " Most of the humorous writers I know, me included, aren’t very funny in conversation. In fact, I’m so boring I could suck the laughs out of a hyena convention. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

7 " Everyone has these leaks, as the poker players call it. A leak is something that drains your income, something that has nothing to do with your work. And it’s often something you’re not willing to give up. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

8 " sometimes we love what we wrote, critics hate it. Sometimes we hate what we wrote, critics love it. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

9 " the idea of being a “published” author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

10 " Heather Graham was raising children while making the time to write what has now become 100 novels. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

11 " Settle in your mind what you want, what your goal is with your writing, and then take steps to reach that goal. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

12 " They may not spell brilliantly, they may not have the most amazing command of the English language. But they are willing to learn, and they read like crazy. They write, because they have loved so much to read. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

13 " Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

14 " writers who want to survive in 2015 will need to make money off of free books, or they will soon quit writing. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

15 " If you can avoid the grammatical bog of trying to wow English professors with your sentences, then you’re well on your way to getting the reader to turn one page and then the next. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

16 " Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

17 " Ly” adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer’s intent. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

18 " You must be true to yourself—however, if you have a dozen editors tell you that something is a cliché, trite, or overdone, it probably is, and you need to step back and take a look at your work. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

19 " The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed. "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die

20 " Anyone using two or more exclamation points together will not only be rejected but taken out and shot!!! "

― Scott Nicholson , Write Good or Die