Writing – Page 14 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

No two readers…

No two readers ever read the same book.

— Edmund Wilson

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

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

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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