Writing – Page 5 – P. K. ABBOT THRILLERS

Writer’s Block…

…when your imaginary friend refuses to talk to you.

First Draft

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

Description

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

—Stephen King

You don’t need demons

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”

― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

Looking into the Abyss

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

– Michael Connelly

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

The Well

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

– Ernest Hemingway