Bob Mayer > Quotes

“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”
― Bob Mayer

“In darkness there is death.”
― Bob Mayer

“It’s more in line with the warnings they put on plastic laundry covers: Don’t wrap this around your head: could be bad for you. I think Darwinism has to get a chance to work. The more we protect stupid people from themselves, the more we ensure the long, slow descent of the human race into idiocracy.”
― Bob Mayer, Nightstalkers

“Telling people the truth relieves one of responsibility. It is then their decision what they do, not yours. It is only when you lie or deceive them that you continue to hold responsibility.” Pitr”
― Bob Mayer, Nightstalkers

“The key to team success is trust”
Bob Mayer said this in an article about indie publishing; he was referring to military ops. This also rings very true in football-missed assignments are more often the result of a lack of trust in the teammate next door than a lapse in memory.”
― Bob Mayer

“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso.”
― Bob Mayer, Write It Forward: From Writer to Successful Author

“You always have a choice. It's just that you have to pay the price that goes along with your choice.”
― Bob Mayer, Eyes of the Hammer

“It is an old Russian saying that when something another person is doing bothers you, look to yourself.”
― Bob Mayer, The Sphinx

“flank speed,”
― Bob Mayer, The Sphinx

“Doc took a step forward. “That’s cutting it awfully thin, twelve hours. It would be easy to miss these ripples.” Edith shook her head. “Don’t you understand? That’s why the Patrol stretches all the way back to the beginning of mankind. We have twelve hours in the present, but all of history, after the initiating event of a ripple, to notice it. So any agent past the initiating of a ripple up until the present can report it.” She pointed toward the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “And that’s why we’re here. We have art in there from across the world. A series of ripples make it to a shift, it will show up in the art from some time and some place.” “Ingenious,” Eagle said. “The backup reporting system.” Edith nodded. “Yes. The Patrol disappearing, that wipes out any agent reporting in other than through the art.”
― Bob Mayer, Time Patrol

“black welts.”
― Bob Mayer, The Mission

“in”
― Bob Mayer, Chasing the Lost

“The one character trait I have found that successful writers have in common, over and over again, is the ability to consistently work hard.”
― Bob Mayer, Write It Forward: From Writer to Successful Author

“what-iffing.”
― Bob Mayer, Area 51

“It’s not the sins of the father but rather the grief of the mother that is so damaging.”
― Bob Mayer, Eternity Base

“Before the war, James Roosevelt lobbied to get Joe Kennedy appointed to the Court of St. James by his father.”
― Bob Mayer, Walk on the Wild Side

“A team box was tied down in the center holding everything from climbing ropes to arctic clothing to chemical/biological protection suits, parachutes, dry suits, spare radio batteries, two million in gold coins for barter, etc., etc.; someone with an extremely paranoid and inventive mind had packed it. Aka Nada.”
― Bob Mayer, Time Patrol

“splotches”
― Bob Mayer, The Mission

“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.”  Pablo Picasso.”
― Bob Mayer, THE NOVEL WRITER'S TOOLKIT: From Idea to Best-Seller

“slime.”
― Bob Mayer, The Sphinx

“Simmons hadn’t been too surprised to find Franklin a young bearded man who looked more like he ought to be doing a poetry reading at a college than leading people to look at a classified government facility.”
― Bob Mayer, Area 51

“maybe some of us need to write what we are afraid to know or face. I see many writers who avoid writing what they should be writing because it would mean confronting their fears. Be curious about your fear—it’s a cave, but instead of a monster lurking inside there is treasure instead.”
― Bob Mayer, Write It Forward: From Writer to Successful Author

“Some of the people who camp out at the mailbox mistake aircraft running lights for UFOs. When a plane’s in its final flight path the lights seem to just hover, especially since it comes in almost straight over the mailbox.”
― Bob Mayer, Area 51

“sputtering light”
― Bob Mayer, The Mission

“swarm a man under!”
― Bob Mayer, The Sphinx

“Nada had his own theory, not quite a Nada Yada yet, that it should be a rule that whoever came up with something should have to test it personally.”
― Bob Mayer, Time Patrol

“You can market your book, but you can’t sell your book. The only book we’ve ever seen being successfully “sold” by selling methods is the Encyclopedia.”
― Bob Mayer, The Shelfless Book: How We Made Our First Million on Kindle

“those who want the lifestyle of ‘author’. They never get published. The ones who want to BE an author make it.”
― Bob Mayer, Write It Forward: From Writer to Successful Author

“No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.”
― Bob Mayer, Walk on the Wild Side

“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were interchangeable parts.  We’re not any more.  All those people between us and our readers (agents, editors, publishers, book reps, bookstores) are the ones whose jobs are in danger.”
― Bob Mayer, The Shelfless Book: How We Made Our First Million on Kindle