3 Quotes & Sayings By Inez Kelley

Inez Kelley was born on February 14, 1918, in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, the daughter of a farmer. She enjoyed writing from an early age, and by the time she was twenty had tried her hand at playwriting, poetry, short stories, and children's books. She worked as a secretary for several years before deciding to write full-time. Her first published book was A Mother's Parting Gift to Her Daughter, which she wrote with her husband Read more

The book was published under the name "Inez Kelley" on January 1, 1948. It sold more than 200,000 copies in its first year of publication and went on to sell more than two million copies worldwide. Later that year she released Mama's Home Cooking, which has sold more than four million copies in book form alone.

Other titles include The Little Book of Cooking Wisdom (1953), Mama's Birthday Book (1956), Dear Mama (1960) and A Woman's Life for Me (1963).

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Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many many many red marks. Fix them. Then put it away for two weeks. Work on something else. Finally, edit one last time. Now you are ready to sub your first work. Criticism is hard to take at first. Trust me, I've been there. But learn to think of crit marks as a knife. Each one is designed to cut away the bad and leave a scar. Scars prove you've lived, learned and walked away a winner. Any writer who tells you they don't need edits is lying. I don't care if they have 100 books out. Edits make you grow and if you aren't growing as a writer, you are dead. Inez Kelley
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Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod. Inez Kelley