Writing – Page 2 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

Imagination

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

— Philip Jose Farmer

Creativity

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

Rejection

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

–Sylvia Plath

Wrestling dragons…

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

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.

Ideas are like rabbits…

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

—John Steinbeck

I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice—they all make fine fuel.

—Edna Ferber

There’s no greater agony…

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

Clear as a Country Creek

I think most writers, even the best, overwrite. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

—Truman Capote

A Quality of Redemption

I’m a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there’s a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

– Michael Connelly

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