Pitching is an essential skill for all writers. If you want to get assignments and or have someone publish your book, you need to make a pitch. David Remnick of The New Yorker will not magically find the brilliant manuscript…
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner
“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
Patricia Marx
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
