J.A. Konrath Quotes

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.

Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness.

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.

If you're having trouble, it's because you just don't know how - yet!

Before you make the key, study the lock.

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I’m okay in that respect.” “Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.

Sorry to hear about your Dad."He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him.""Heart attack?""He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.