Literary Birthday – 17 February – Jane Porter

Happy Birthday, Jane Porter, born 17 February 1960.

Jane Porter Quotes

1. Work hard. Know what you want. Visualize what you want. Write it down. Create a picture board if it helps, or make a list that you put in a prominent place. And then get back to writing. (Jane Porter FAQs)
2. Be tenacious. Fight for your dreams. Fight for your words and your stories and your themes. (Jane Porter FAQs)
3. Don’t be swallowed by the whole consumerism of the publishing industry. It’s a machine. Authors are artists and business women. Be smart about what you want, need, and are willing to sacrifice to ‘get there’.  (Jane Porter FAQs)
4. I’m happy writing three to four books a year and then contributing to the industry as a publisher and producer, versus writing more. (Jane Porter FAQs)
5. I love second chance stories or stories where the heroine—who hasn’t had the happy-ever-after—gets that ending, gets the love and the exciting future. (Interview With Carly Rae)
6. I don’t remember why I wanted to be an author. For me, I just knew I did. I learned to read young, and it was my natural response to reading—read and then write about it. Read some more, and then write my own version. (Interview With Carly Rae)
7. My dad was a professor and a writer, and his brother did a lot of writing, so I suppose it’s in my blood. I just can’t breathe without words, and the words must go on paper. (Interview With Carly Rae)
8. Truthfully, writing for me is the hardest when I step back, and there’s too much time between projects, so staying productive and agreeing to new deadlines, keeps me on task and focused.(Interview With Carly Rae)
9. I can’t write a book that doesn’t have a Happy-Ever-After. I believe in them, and not just in novels and stories, but in real life. Why should characters in fiction have a happier story than women in real life? Why can’t real women grab for happiness and hope and live with a sense of empowerment and optimism? (USA Today)
10. For me, writer’s block is fatigue, procrastination, and/or failing to really dig deep into a story. When I find myself avoiding writing, I ask myself why—am I truly mentally, or physically, tired? Or am I being lazy and self-indulgent…. not knuckling down to do the work? And it is work. Writing is really hard work. Its one decision after another for weeks and sometimes months, and then its revision time, which is one decision after another, and those decisions take focus. (The Write Teacher)

Jane Porter is an American author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 70 romances, holds an MA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and has been a finalist for the prestigious RITA award six times, winning in 2014 for Take Me, Cowboy. Her popular novel, Flirting With Forty, was made into a Lifetime movie. Click here for a list of her books. She has over 15 million books in print, in 20 languages and in 25 countries. Jane founded Tule Publishing in 2013 to provide creative and commercial opportunities to writers. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

Source for image: Author’s Media Kit

by Amanda Patterson

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