Kevin McLaughlin > Quotes

“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

“I hated the Naga, you know.” Garul nodded. “I once hated humans, too. Then I learned to understand them instead.” That made sense to Owen. “It’s hard to hate what you understand.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Clad in Steel

“Plus…well, I don’t want to be seen in the raccoon mobile.” “The raccoon mobile is radical!” Rider shrieked and proceeded to destroy his plate.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Dragon's Daughter Complete Series Omnibus

“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

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

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― Kevin McLaughlin, Clawing for Battle

“Brockton, if you use magic to open bags of potato chips, you don’t really count as a normal human anymore.” “That’s only because I spent so much time working in a convenience store. Do you know how many bags of chips I opened for kids and old ladies? More than a man should have to open in his life, that’s for sure.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Steel Dragon 3

“It wasn’t a choice, really. She knew that she must become what she was born to be. And yet, if she fully embraced her powers, she would also accept that she wasn’t human but was something more powerful and more deadly. What would happen to the person she had been?”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Steel Dragon Omnibus: Books 1-8

“The only part of her that she had to leave behind was the part of her that doubted what she was capable of.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Steel Dragon Omnibus: Books 1-8

“The raccoon mobile is radical!” Rider shrieked and proceeded to destroy his plate.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Dragon's Daughter Complete Series Omnibus

“magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Finding Honor

“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

“Things were supposed to be easy for her but her last week had definitely not been that.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Steel Dragon Omnibus: Books 1-8

“Everyone stopped talking and turned to her except Rider, who proceeded to shatter his teacup with his fork.”
― Kevin McLaughlin, Dragon's Daughter Complete Series Omnibus