Quotes from Bob Mayer

The successful writer takes chances and succeeds. The successful writer embraces the changing world of publishing and uses those changes to their advantage.

Kinsman survived many subsequent brutal battles in the Pacific as a Code Talker. He is not to be under-estimated.

He walked around the blast barrier to the entrance to the decontamination facility. "Wait!" the Acme called out. "You need to go through Protocol and wear a protective suit!" Mac ignored him. "Moms, if that thing is contagious with something, I breached containment with my forty-mike-mike round that blew its arm off." "Roger that," Moms said.

write a book they can't not buy.

The good news is that no matter what you are writing…there is a market for it…but you have to understand the consumers in that given market.

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.

A team box was tied down in the center holding everything from climbing ropes to arctic clothing to chemical/biological protection suits, parachutes, dry suits, spare radio batteries, two million in gold coins for barter, etc., etc.; someone with an extremely paranoid and inventive mind had packed it. Aka Nada.

maybe some of us need to write what we are afraid to know or face. I see many writers who avoid writing what they should be writing because it would mean confronting their fears. Be curious about your fear—it's a cave, but instead of a monster lurking inside there is treasure instead.

You can write in multiple genres, but if you want a career in publishing, pick one genre and become very good at it. Then you can write the other stuff.

How good is your writing? The best idea in the world has to be supported by solid writing.

The one character trait I have found that successful writers have in common, over and over again, is the ability to consistently work hard.

The word freedom lost much of its strength when one's back was weighted down with fieldwork.

Mac picked up a small saw and began cutting. The pathologist made a whimpering sound, like an artist who'd just seen someone take a can of spray paint to his masterpiece. "Yep," Mac said, holding up something small and bloody in his hands. "A transmitter.

The Donner Party is key because it's a study of group dynamics or rather, how group dynamics don't work. Few of us understand how quickly the veneer of civilization can be torn away from people.

less than 10% of the writers have a clear idea of where they want to be in five years with their writing career.

She had curly brown hair and there was something about her striking features that flickered a lightbulb in Ivar's memory but didn't turn it on. "Do you speak English?" she asked. Ivar felt a surge of relief. "Yes!" The woman smiled. "American?" "Yes!" "Excellent." The woman extended her hand. "Welcome to the Space Between. I'm Amelia Earhart.

We're down to nine hours." "Until?" Scout asked. The Keep was expressionless. "Something bad happens." "Right," Scout said, as if she completely understood. "Bad.

Colonel Rheault, the commander of the Fifth Special Forces at the time, was the basis for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.

Lee had married the great-step-daughter of General Washington and had thus become part of this noble place.

Cause of death, multiple wounds in upper right chest as well as severing of right arm, all leading to exsanguination." "He bled out," Mac said quickly as Roland began to open his mouth.

Some of the people who camp out at the mailbox mistake aircraft running lights for UFOs. When a plane's in its final flight path the lights seem to just hover, especially since it comes in almost straight over the mailbox.

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).

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.

Hold on," Moms said, processing the information. "You're saying he should have been dead based on your analysis, but he was still alive. And alive enough to attack us?" "Yes.