You Must Write Quotes

“Fear of success can be as paralyzing as fear of failure.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, You Must Write: Success Through Heinlein's Rules

“Why do some folks insist that the first draft is crap? I’ve heard a couple of answers for this question. One is to blame Hemingway, which I’m rather fond of. A lot of the bad advice being passed around for writers can be laid at his feet. He got tired of new writers coming to him and asking him for the secret formula for success, so he started making up outrageously bad advice to tell them. Sadly, much of that has ended up in Writer’s Digest articles over the last few decades and is now accepted as fact.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, You Must Write: Success Through Heinlein's Rules

“Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it’s even considered their best stuff.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, You Must Write: Success Through Heinlein's Rules

“What if it isn’t good enough? What if this is the book that will make everyone hate me?”
― Kevin McLaughlin, You Must Write: Success Through Heinlein's Rules