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J.A. Konrath

J.A. Konrath Books

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J.A. Konrath is an American author known for his suspense novels. His works are characterized by their tense and gripping plots and unique narrative style. Born in 1970, Konrath began writing in 2005 and quickly gained recognition in the suspense fiction genre.

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“I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I’m okay in that respect.” “Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.”

Funny Guns Genitalia

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“Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.”

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“Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.”

People Writing Book

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“Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”

Ifs Two Tomorrow Anxiety Complaining Quitting Handle Stop Complaining

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“All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.”

Knows Needs Giving Writing Character Goal

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“Never having something is different than having something and losing it.”

Different Losing

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“If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.”

Ifs Smart Being Smart

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“As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.”

Want Can Do Imagination Alive Lucky Incredibles

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“Before you make the key, study the lock.”

Study Keys Locks

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“You can't be both happy and ambitious.”

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“Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.”

Giving Reason Might Ten Including Cream Nasty Items Counting Lanes Thirteen Carts Hemorrhoids

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“Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.”

Heart Dad Sorry Seventies Truck Pizza Fast Food Your Dad Heart Attack

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“Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.”

Trying Hard Enough Fate

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“Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.”

People Trying Born Fire Succeed Behavior Harder Factors Will To Succeed Fire Inside Learned Behavior

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“Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.”

People Stills Age Earth Dies Causes Race Written Ten Bottom Convinced Ice Posts Nonsense Establishment Cents Stamps August Freeze Great Depression Kindles Bunnies Memes Ice Age Food Stamps

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“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”

Ifs Positive Complaining Quitting Positive Attitude Stop Complaining

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“There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.”

Giving Writing Success Giving Up Stress Persistence Never Giving Up

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“Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.”

Reader Essentials Publishers

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“Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.”

Helping Courses Sides Bronte

Author:J.A. Konrath

About the Author

Born: 1970
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 19

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