Dan Alatorre Quotes

People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it.

Open your soul and they will stop and watch.

Who do I think would appreciate my book?
I'm surprised anybody does. Oops, did I say that out loud?

Great writing isn't safe.

I usually end have one outrageous minor character. He or she says the stuff I wish I had said in real life. Readers will love that character.

The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you're a writer. That's still considered cool.

When you have writer friends, you have to ask each other awkward questions all the time. It's beyond embarrassing but they get it.

If it's funny enough, you can pretty much do anything.

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can't play it safe.

Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.

You can do it. Don't let anyone say you can't. You can.

You hold in your heart everything you need to know to write anything your story needs written.

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.

I know each new story is better than the last.

What's my writing style? Lazy.

A humorist is a writer who's not funny enough to call themselves a comedian.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Don't polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren't improvements, they're just changes.

I believe in you. That is enough.

It's amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I've finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

My first bestseller was a cookbook. That will make any novelist humble.

I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.

Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.

You can ask somebody just about anything if you say you're a writer first.

If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad.