Brian Hodge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.
-- Brian Hodge

#Trying #Stories #Firsts
A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.
-- Brian Hodge

#Real #Book #Home
One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day.
-- Brian Hodge

#Running #Reality #People
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
-- Brian Hodge

#Horse #Crime Novels #Auctions
I'm the type of person who always has to be making something.
-- Brian Hodge

#Type #Persons
Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You need to learn how to be a marketer just as much as you need to get past your influences and develop your unique prose voice. And you can't do it alone. You need a strong emotional support system to help cope with the frustrations and setbacks.
-- Brian Hodge

#Art #Strong #Writing

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

Brian Hodge famous quotes

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