Writing – Page 12 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

Like driving a car…

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

—E. L. Doctorow

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

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you’re the one writing it.

– Julie Wright

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

—Leonard Cohen

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

– George R. R. Martin

No two readers ever read the same book.

— Edmund Wilson

If an adverb became a character in one of my books, I’d have it shot. Immediately.

—Elmore Leonard

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

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

—Stephen King

Talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

—Stephen King