Reflections – Page 18 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

First Draft

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

– Terry Pratchett

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

—John Steinbeck

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

– George R. R. Martin

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

—Neil Gaiman

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

—Mark Twain

I always write the end of everything first. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going, is my theory.

—Truman Capote

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Philip Jose Farmer

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

–Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath