“Your job is to write the best book you can. Period. Every time. Don't 'save' anything for later. Don't leave anything on the mat. If the idea sweeps you up in its fury, ride the dang wave.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“The really important point here is that your debut book/series/year DOES NOT PREDICT YOUR CAREER. It's not any indicator of future success. Publishers know and understand this. Just keep writing the best books you can. Keep innovating without fear. Keep that hope.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“Edits can be disheartening and overwhelming because you write the best book you possibly can the first time around, and then you’re asked to make it better. HOW?? But that extra set of eyes or two crack open the story in ways you never imagined.”— Kiersten White, twitter.com
“You know what's great about writing a book is it is still waiting for you the next day right where you left it and also probably that night haunting you and basically always it is in your brain and you can't escape it.”— Jami Attenberg, twitter.com
“It can be hard, during the solitary years of writing a book, to imagine it might ever find its way into in the lives & hearts of others.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“Here's one thing that makes it hard to finish a novel: Going down the Twitter rabbit hole.”— Gayle Forman, twitter.com
“Talent, potential-- none of that matters. Literally the only thing that will get you published is writing the best book that you can and going through the right steps to get it published. Nobody pays for potential. They can't publish potential. They need an actual book.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“...writing is an individual journey. There's no norm. Getting an agent/sale can take 10 months or 10 years. Write the best book you can, edit it the best you can, polish the best you can, and hit the send button. Repeat until you reach your goal. You got this.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“I don't edit a thing until I have a finished first draft. That way lies madness, or at least the opportunity to fall into a pit of hot garbage that will remind me how much I suck and convince me I forgot how to write. Finish the first draft. fix it later.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“When writing a book, I think of the people who will read it twice or more, not the people who will read it once.”— Tao Lin, twitter.com