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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.

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

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God’s loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! – Victor Hugo
  4. As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
  5. You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
  6. 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
  7. The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it. – BJ Daniels
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red light. – Moe Cidaly
  11. Our family car was the antithesis of designs and desirability. It was like driving Hitler’s moustache. – Samantha Bee
  12. It’s like driving a car with your foot on the brake. – Allen Elkin
  13. 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
  14. Thoughts are supreme. It is driving the car we call life. So to reach the deserved destination think right. – Debasish Mridha
  15. My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. – Jodi Picoult
  16. The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing. – NT Wright
  17. It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel! – Sandra Kopp
  18. 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
  19. Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road. – Amit Kalantri
  20. Writing a novel is easy-¦ writing checks is hard. – Michael J Kannengieser
  21. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels. – Mylo Carbia
  22. A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  23. The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
  24. Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
  25. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
  26. A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage. – Jay Samit
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves. – Joshua Ferris
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far. – Arzum Uzun
  36. Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
  37. Friday night’s alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you – JessicaLynn Barbour
  38. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? – John Fowles
  39. 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
  40. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen

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