Writing – Page 13 – 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

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

—John Steinbeck

If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone else’s story.

– Terry Pratchett

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

—Neil Gaiman

You are what you settle for.

—Janis Joplin

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which doesn’t make a profit is without value.

– Arthur Miller

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

– Winston Churchill

You write in order to change the world. If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

—James Baldwin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

—Benjamin Franklin