P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

The terrible thing…

The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.

—James Baldwin

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

—Leonard Cohen

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

—Sinclair Lewis

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

— Philip Jose Farmer

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

–Sylvia Plath

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

—Joyce Carol Oates

Book lovers never sleep alone.

—Anonymous

Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

—G. K. Chesterton

It’s the kind of thing that can happen when you spend too much time bottled up inside your own head.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck