Ken Scott Quotes

#1. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

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#2. Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

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#3. Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.

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#4. Books, I read them for one reason and one reason only so that I can appear more educated than I actually am.

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#5. Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

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#6. My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

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#7. War creates murderers and profiteers. Wherever there is conflict you'll find a man ready to torture, rape and kill in the name of The Cause and to line his pocket with a quick easy buck.

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#8. Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

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#9. If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.

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#10. It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

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#11. Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

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#12. Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.

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#13. Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

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#14. Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.
Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

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