You’ve just gorged on Halloween candy (you did, didn’t you?). Feeling a little weighed down and sluggish? Me, too! (But the 27 mini Butterfingers and Crunch bars were definitely worth it!) It’s time for a little lightening up! For today’s Pub Tip, I thought we’d indulge in a little light reading, made up of some of my favorite quotes—publishing and otherwise. Food for thought, without the calories…
Enjoy!
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” ~Mother Teresa
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” ~Jack London
“Moderation in all things… including moderation!” ~Petronius (1st century AD)
“I wake up each morning torn between the desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world…” ~E.B. White
“Just as a map can’t be real size, a book that says everything is worthless.” ~Stephen Elliott
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” ~J.G.Holland
“You are a symphony waiting to express itself in the world.” ~Michael Ellsberg
“Rome wasn’t built in a day — or a year — but the damn thing did get built.” ~Justine Musk
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” ~Winston Churchill
“What if you could only do one thing to market your book? Write as if this is your last book. Ever. Your legacy.” ~Jonathan Fields
“If someone loves your book, by the very definition, someone else hates it.” ~Stephen Elliott
“You’ve heard ‘With age does not come wisdom.’ That can be true for authors, too. My version—“With publication does not necessarily come wisdom.” ~Linda Sivertsen
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” ~H.G. Wells
“I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” ~Blaise Pascal
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” ~Ernest Hemingway
“Write quickly and you will never write well. Write well, and you will soon write quickly.” ~Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.” ~Robert Frost
“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.” ~Justice Brandeis
“Tweaking is every writer’s well-earned addiction.” ~Wyndham Wood
“Operation Self-Esteem—Day Fucking One.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert, from Eat, Pray, Love
“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.” ~Steve Martin
Hope these quotes sit with you throughout the week, as they have for me throughout the years.
In gratitude,
Linda
