Wednesday Quick Quotes
“It’s absolutely critical that we find ways to serve the interests of independent authors. At this point, many don’t understand the supply chain, and those who do sometimes feel that it doesn’t serve them.” … Read More
Wednesday Quick Quotes
August 25, 2016
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Fredrick Cooper
“Once we start looking at and thinking about individual sentences, rather than simply thinking of the sentence as just another brick in a wall of words, once we consider the sentence with the care … Read More
Wednesday Quick Quotes
August 17, 2016
by
Fredrick Cooper
“As a reader, I’m often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and the angst and joy they bring to them.” C.J. Box Novelist
Wednesday Quick Quotes
August 10, 2016
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Fredrick Cooper
“If in doubt, leave it out is a rule I have followed all my life and usually find it advisable in the long run. You can’t unsay something.” Sue Henry Novelist
Wednesday Quick Quotes
August 3, 2016
by
Fredrick Cooper
“You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.” Tony Hillerman Novelist
Wednesday Quick Quotes
July 27, 2016
by
Fredrick Cooper
“The ability to express thoughts coherently and creatively through the written word is a professional asset as well as a personal attribute. It’s worth cultivating.” Anne Janzer The Writer’s Process
Wednesday Quick Quotes
July 20, 2016
by
Fredrick Cooper
“We need to look at the notion of publisher and agent as gatekeeper – in the new world of self-publishing, gatekeeping is not keeping people out, but guiding people in.” Jonny Geller Curtis Brown
Wednesday Quick Quotes
July 13, 2016
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Fredrick Cooper
“For the first time … books are competing with everything else you might read or watch or listen to in a way they never did before. Online doesn’t care what is in the file it … Read More
Wednesday Quick Quotes
July 6, 2016
by
Fredrick Cooper
“A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.” Craig Johnson Another Man’s Moccasins (2009)
Wednesday Quick Quotes
June 29, 2016
by
Fredrick Cooper
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” Miguel de Cervantes