Ideas are a dime a dozen.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
—Rob Sanders

Sometimes you have to edit out a favorite part of a manuscript, rip out a scene, or kill off a parent to get to the real story.

—Rob Sanders

When you have revised all you can,

revise one more time.

—Rob Sanders

Writing is a pay-it forward kind of thing. The more you give, the more you get.

—Rob Sanders

If you could do it alone,

wouldn’t you have done it

already?

—Rob Sanders

If there happened to be only one way to do it, everyone would have done it already.

—Rob Sanders

You need to date a character for awhile before you fall in love and make a commitment.

—Rob Sanders

People aren’t born creative.

They don’t learn to be creative.

They just keep practicing being creative every day.

—Rob Sanders

Like a picture frame holds a photo, the beginning and end of a picture book frame the story.

The beginning is the promise to the reader.

The middle fulfills the promise.

The ending ­­­­is the promise’s payoff.

—Rob Sanders

An editor makes writing better.

A writing teacher makes writers better.

A critique group makes the whole thing  bearable.

—Rob Sanders

Getting published is seventy-five percent perspiration, fifteen percent luck, and ten percent magic.

—Rob Sanders

Publishing takes patience. Patience is a virtue. Unfortunately, I lack most virtues.

—Rob Sanders