Bob Mayer Quotes

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader. ~ Bob Mayer

Writing is a lonely profession. ~ Bob Mayer

The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course. ~ Bob Mayer

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing. ~ Bob Mayer

Tomorrow we go back to normal?"
"Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal."
"I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours. ~ Jennifer Crusie

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time. ~ Bob Mayer

Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character). ~ Bob Mayer

Content is King. Promotion is Queen ~ Bob Mayer

In darkness there is death. ~ Bob Mayer

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days. ~ Bob Mayer

There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know. ~ Bob Mayer

After you die, you're going to hell for being a dishonest bastard, and you'll burn for eternity."
The guy snatched his hand back. "I don't believe in Hell."
"Most people don't until they get there." Mab smiled at him. "Of course, if you stop lying and cheating, you can probably redeem yourself. If not, have them put marshmallows in your coffin. There's a bight side to everything, I always say. ~ Jennifer Crusie

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate. ~ Bob Dole

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland. ~ Bob Dylan

The status quo is unacceptable, and it is costly. Whatever money the province may feel it is losing with revenue sharing will be more than paid off by the revitalization and empowerment of Aboriginal communities. To put matters of dignity in blunt economic terms: healthier communities cost less to taxpayers. ~ Bob Rae

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed. ~ Bob Dylan

Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an inside joke among comics, when he got Full House, it was, like, wow, hes playing this all-American dad kind of thing. That was not Bob Saget. His comedic style is definitely more twisted, and he has an edgier side than he showed in Full House. ~ Bob Saget

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly? ~ Bob Marley

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it. ~ Bob Dylan

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today. ~ Bob Seger

I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem. ~ Bob Denver

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV. ~ Bob Newhart

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good ~ Bob Dylan

He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife. ~ Bob Phillips

Comedy is tragedy plus timing. ~ Bob Odenkirk

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one. ~ Bob Hope

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage. ~ Bob Ross

Repo cast a narrowed glare over me. "You're saying that Banana Cake girl - "

"She's a queen, not a girl."

He huffed impatiently. "Her majesty of bananas is your woman?"

I gave an affirmative head bob.

The three men traded stares, silently communicating with their eyeballs. This time I didn't mind ~ Penny Reid

The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead. ~ Bob Marley

Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself.
Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others. ~ Bob Buford

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars. ~ Bob Dylan

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic. ~ Marissa Mayer

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart. ~ Bob Fosse

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either." "Why not? You've done it before. And you've got a new gun and everything. ~ Jim Butcher

I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world, ~ Bob Sadino

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. ~ Kin Hubbard

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there. ~ Bob Parsons

Do what lasts, get around to everything else. ~ Bob Goff

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow
stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth,
swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling,
somewhere else it gets back up. ~ Bob Hicok

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing. ~ Brendon Urie

Whatever you worship will consume you, Dong-Sing wrote one week. Bob Wright worships money. Wyatt Earp worships justice. Eddie Foy worships applause. Doc worships home and family, as I do. How will this consume us? ~ Mary Doria Russell

You can't do something forever. ~ Bob Dylan

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support. ~ Jane Mayer

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out. ~ Bob Geldof

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth. ~ Bob Frank

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have ... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ~ Bob Barker