Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
– EL Doctorow
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- Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way. – ELDoctorow
- Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it. – Steven Magee
- Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God’s loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! – Victor Hugo
- You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
- The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it. – BJ Daniels
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
- The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria. – Kari Martindale
- No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red light. – Moe Cidaly
- Our family car was the antithesis of designs and desirability. It was like driving Hitler’s moustache. – Samantha Bee
- It’s like driving a car with your foot on the brake. – Allen Elkin
- If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. – Brian MacLearn
- Thoughts are supreme. It is driving the car we call life. So to reach the deserved destination think right. – Debasish Mridha
- My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. – Jodi Picoult
- Kicking a police car? Really?’ Caleb shrugged. ‘Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do? – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road. – Amit Kalantri
- A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage. – Jay Samit
- Make sure you control the radio on a long road trip. You don’t want to listen to some old-fashioned music the whole time. – Preston Shay
- It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa. – Kari Martindale
- No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night. – Jeannine Atkins
- I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip? – Gina Greenlee
- I want to take a trip to Shakespeare’s brain and vacation there with his thoughts may be I also start writing about twisted love and betrayals. – Megha Khare
- We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves. – Joshua Ferris
- How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? – Bert Murray
- We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far. – Arzum Uzun
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- Friday night’s alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you – JessicaLynn Barbour
- The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? – John Fowles
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Put great car and value into what you do, and that value grows far more valuable as it spreads out beyond. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Lunar Eclipse doesn’t that sound like a car you can only drive at night? – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- What’s the point of a houseful of books you’ve already read? – Cory Doctorow
- If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you. – Cory Doctorow
- Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again. – Cory Doctorow
- The images of things are not the things in themselves. – EL Doctorow
- Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. – Cory Doctorow
- Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you’re really having a deep relationship with it. – Cory Doctorow
- There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. – EL Doctorow