Writing – Page 10 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

Writers can be pretty intense.

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

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

No two readers ever read the same book.

— Edmund Wilson

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

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