Tim Maleeny famous quotes

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
-- Tim Maleeny

#Writing #Odds #People

This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.
-- Tim Maleeny

#Running #Writing #Successful

A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty of humanity. The toughness of Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels blended with the wry humor and scope of Ross Thomas. Wholly original, endlessly entertaining. The books of A. E. Maxwell are a forgotten treasure.
-- Tim Maleeny

#Memories #Book #Eye

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.