Writing – Page 9 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

Like Breathing…

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.“

― Annie Dillard

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

—John Steinbeck

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

—Sinclair Lewis

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

—Alfred Hitchcock

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

And then Satan said, “Make them write a synopsis.”

…if you’ve ever self-published a book, you know what this means. Thank you, Elisabeth Wheatley.

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