Ken Scott Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Ken Scott

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

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. — Ken Scott

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. — Ken Scott

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. — Ken Scott

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

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End — Ken Scott

If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read. — Ken Scott

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. — Ken Scott

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

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

War is a marvellous stimulus for the economy of a failing country. It takes young men out of unemployment and creates wealth for Arms dealers, construction companies and medical and drugs corporations. Said country can rape thieve and pillage with complete justification. World War III - coming to a TV screen near you soon. — Ken Scott

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja. — Ken Scott