Inez Kelley

“Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many many many red marks. Fix them. Then put it away for two weeks. Work on something else. Finally, edit one last time. Now you are ready to sub your first work.Criticism is hard to take at first. Trust me, I've been there. But learn to think of crit marks as a knife. Each one is designed to cut away the bad and leave a scar. Scars prove you've lived, learned and walked away a winner. Any writer who tells you they don't need edits is lying. I don't care if they have 100 books out. Edits make you grow and if you aren't growing as a writer, you are dead.”

“Uhm, let go of that bossy vine, Tarzan, this Jane don’t swing that way. I said I’m notgoing.”

“....There. You’re married. We’re done. I need a drink.”

“Are you crazy? Why did you tell her I was pregnant?”“It sounded nicer than the truth, okay?”“What, that you have round-trip tickets on the Bi-Polar Express?”

“Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod.”

“A man could be content with bread alone if he'd never tasted anything else. But one taste of sugar and John knew he'd never know such sweetness again.”

“This wasn't a man for frivolity. He was made for hard work, hard play and heartache.”