I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
M. J. Rose
Related I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brot... JANE LINDSKOLD The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of ... CARLY FIORINA One rose says more than the dozen. WENDY CRAIG One rose says more than the dozen WENDY CRAIG I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in m... NEWT GINGRICH The reason I wrote the book is that I have made many mistakes (in my deer hunting experiences). I wa... BRAD HERNDON Here I will help build up other athletes around the world and help them avoid the mistakes I made, LENNOX LEWIS I've made mistakes, usually when I felt backed against a wall or faced enormous pressure. I'... MIKE GALLAGHER I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud... MICHAEL BERGIN I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances. TUCKER CARLSON I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learn... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I'... RON RASH There is really no one who hasn't made mistakes in their career. I'm always shocked that peo... JAMES CORDEN I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've m... PHIL ROBERTSON All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't mad... TRACEY EMIN I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from th... MARK FRAUENFELDER I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And ... DAN RATHER I accept responsibility for the mistakes that we made. No one is more disappointed with our shortcom... DON FOWLER I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy ... PAT OLIPHANT I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's hap... DWYANE WADE We had the game firmly in our control. Hopefully, we can maintain our form and avoid making any mist... DANNY BLIND This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. W... DAN RATHER If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... JOHN WOODEN Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes bu... PATSY KENSIT It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. RUPERT MURDOCH I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely... MILEY CYRUS You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's i... JAMES CORDEN Anytime you have more than a dozen arrests, it is a significant operation, and the investigation is ... CHRIS MCCLOUD None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. B... EMI IYALLA Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca... ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes ... KAJOL It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on... M. J. ROSE Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've ... DAN ARIELY People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are a... SHANE WARNE I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them... MIKA I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere. JOSH GORDON Sometimes, people never stood a chance in the beginning. Or they might have made a mistake. When peo... HANNAH KENT I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at th... JOSS WHEDON My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s... IAN RANKIN When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. HENRY ROLLINS I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat do... JACK PRELUTSKY We made more mistakes today than they did, and that's why they won. To their credit, they did a bett... HARRY PETERSON The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas. ALBERT EINSTEIN Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned f... RICK PITINO I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I cou... ZACHARY LEVI Over the past 10 years I have placed in my novels the names of more than two dozen close friends and... DAN BROWN I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. HUMPHRY DAVY I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that ... LARRY KING I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making ... JOHN SCULLEY Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, t... JAMES ARTHUR We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at. EMMA CAULFIELD I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow... ASA DON BROWN No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I... DAYMOND JOHN 'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've mad... ERIC BROWN Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will mis... BEVERLY S. HARLESS I had written about a half-dozen short stories, and they started to feel more like part of one novel... BARBARA GROSH We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and o... SARA POOLE I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfal... MAYER HAWTHORNE I made a couple mistakes and they beat me today. I felt pretty good out there. I just made a couple ... BRAD RADKE I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep thos... SELENA GOMEZ Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mi... GIANLUIGI BUFFON They capitalize on all our mistakes which is why they won the last time. I think communication withi... SARAH KOVACH I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wi... WILBUR SMITH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS He has a terrific way with women. I don't think he has missed more than half a dozen. FREDRIC MARCH I thought we were more disciplined than that. We made too many mistakes and had too many penalties a... CLAUDE BROWN I thought we were more disciplined than that, ... We made too many mistakes and had too many penalti... CLAUDE BROWN I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a m... PETER CUSHING We made too many mistakes and that counted against us. We have to have a look at ourselves. We made ... DE WET BARRY A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing not... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing no... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing noth... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutor... ISABEL GILLIES When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - al... DUNCAN JONES If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. LEON TROTSKY I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone els... SHELBY FOOTE I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is... RICHARD MACDONALD Mistakes were made, ... You don't prosecute people for making mistakes. BRUCE BABBITT I think I'm doing OK. I think our No. 1 defense is doing fine. It's a mental thing, not physical mis... WILL SMITH We made mistakes, too. We had two big turnovers, and one down there in the red zone. Everyone made m... ANTWAAN RANDLE EL My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise ... HARSHIT WALIA The past wrote about the future not acknowledging the past writing about the future. Will we ever le... ANGELA DILLON I thought we made some bad decisions at times. The bottom line is that it's a game of mistakes and i... MARK WOODHEAD I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's ... STEVEN SPIELBERG Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Last time, I don't think we had more than half a dozen people who were real refugees. We had more Te... JEFF WILSON I didn't play my best. I made many mistakes against him. I had a couple of chances in the second set... DOMINIK HRBATY World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen y... GORE VIDAL I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose aga... SHERRI SHEPHERD I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. JUSTIN BIEBER I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film. HEATH LEDGER In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - ... GAYLE LYNDS I think we had a nice size advantage, which is always a big help. McMinnville is disciplined and the... JOEL DUNN I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but ... BROCK OSWEILER I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, ... ORNELLA MUTI
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