L.V. Jones Quotes

Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't.

WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!

Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.

I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!

I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.

Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place.

ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. A finished manuscript is AWESOME! So go, go, go! *waves pompoms*

We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.

While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.

If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when she comes to that part in your story.

Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!

Laughter is like crying.

You owe me. You roasted my father.

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.

Just a few more years and then we'll join the circus.

Sometimes you just want to stop and dance and celebrate mortality. Stop, dance feed your spirit.

He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful.

Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault

Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.

Y are you called the cheese man?

Each day the sun kisses the day goodnight yet no two days are alike.

Each day the sun kisses the earth goodnight yet now two sunsets are alike

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she’s a hero.

It's easy to move on when things are so bad that you can't stand them anymore. It's harder when they're just mediocre.

Reach high for the stars that hidden in your soul. Dream precedes the goal

Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none!

It was not impulse.It was not lust.It was not wrath, or boredom, or desperation.People remembered the saints because they had their tokens.

I love it when you stare at me but my arrogance is entirely your fault.

Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.

Some flowers blush sensing their own beauty and the love they feel from us

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

The frog became a prince. The young girl believed and that made the difference. People become who they think they are

She’s a lunatic, ” says Conrad.“Absolutely insane, ” says Guntram.“Either completely fearless or utterly stupid, ” says Conrad.“She’s going to fit right in, ” says Guntram.

Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.

Zoe's mom liked to send silly postcards that made her laugh, but they usually dwindled as the summer wore on.

Yep, that girl was as dead as you could get inside. But Scarlett Jo wasn't worried. Not really. Because sometimes a person has to die in order to really live.

If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ.

But nothing compared to the reality of the magnificent Light Storm of 2015, nothing, that is, except the almond shaped emerald eyes of his passenger.

Innocence is what is precious about life. No other experience can compare. Cherish it.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?