If you knew then, what you know now, you probably wouldn’t have known enough to do anything about it.

—Rob Sanders

 

The best idea seems to come when I am not thinking about finding the best idea.

—Rob Sanders

Everyone deserves a cheerleader.

Everyone needs a mentor.

But the lucky writer has someone who will say, “Get over yourself and get back to work.”                                                 —Rob Sanders

 

Every day I hope that writing fairies are waiting in my office; that writing muses are dancing on the perfect idea; that the writing gods have thunderstruck my writing with their omnipotent power. It never happens.

—Rob Sanders

 

Picture a child holding your book.

Picture a parent reading the book to that child.
Picture the child saying, “Read it again!”
Now go write that book.

—Rob Sanders

 

If an idea won’t let you go, then you’d better not let it go of that idea.

—Rob Sanders

 

Write today. Don’t judge the quantity. Don’t judge the quality. Don’t judge the viability. Just write.

—Rob Sanders

 

Plan a schedule. Make a schedule. Keep a schedule.

—Rob Sanders

 

As Sara Pennypacker says, “Some days I don’t have any business even writing a check.” But I do it anyway.

—Rob Sanders

I’ve come to realize I am my own worst enemy when it comes to finding distractions to keep me away from the task at hand.

—Rob Sanders

 

I can complain about not having time to write, or I can make time to write.

—Rob Sanders

 

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