Writing – Page 12 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

Wishful thinking

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

—Neil Gaiman

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

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

—Sinclair Lewis

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

Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

– Langston Hughes

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

—Neil Gaiman

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