Quotes from Scott Nicholson

Beats thinking about whatever's waiting in Stonewall.

all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don't it?

Settle in your mind what you want, what your goal is with your writing, and then take steps to reach that goal.

Depends on who we count as 'people' these days.

They may not spell brilliantly, they may not have the most amazing command of the English language. But they are willing to learn, and they read like crazy. They write, because they have loved so much to read.

kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them have... changed. Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in the city, where violent survivors known as "Zapheads" roam the streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains, where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for Doomsday.

bearded one cackled and the man in the orange cap said, "Everybody knows what Zapheads are, or else they're dead." "I don't have a gun." The bearded man aimed his weapon at DeVontay. "Then you better get your ass over here, hadn't

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am.

writers who want to survive in 2015 will need to make money off of free books, or they will soon quit writing.

If you can avoid the grammatical bog of trying to wow English professors with your sentences, then you're well on your way to getting the reader to turn one page and then the next.

Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book.

Because all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don't it?

You have marriage on the brain all of a sudden?

Because part of it is running on automatic. Hearing little whispers from far away.

The face of Kardashian in an oil stain. Or a doorway to hell. Maybe those are the same thing.

God had made a pretty good stew, then He'd screwed it up by mixing in humans and giving them free will and brains. Brains.

Ly" adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer's intent.

suppose you're going to lie about your maggot pudding, and that's why you've hidden it away. Because you're so proud." "Oh, no," she said. "The Reverend's coming, and he's a vegetarian, so he can't have maggots.

You must be true to yourself—however, if you have a dozen editors tell you that something is a cliché, trite, or overdone, it probably is, and you need to step back and take a look at your work.

feet. The wild dog that had bitten her could have inflicted any number of infections, but it wasn't like she could hobble into the ER and have modern medicine deal with it. In After, there were no insurance plans. She leaned against a tree, its rough bark rubbing her spine as she sneaked a look down the forested slope. The Blue Ridge Mountains were sheathed in October's mellow gold

Maybe some of both.

The Doomsday weight-loss plan kicks ass.

Then came the pak-pak-pak of DeVontay's rifle.

Anyone using two or more exclamation points together will not only be rejected but taken out and shot!!!