End Of The Road Quotes

“I thought about Pic and Jesus, and I thought about how it never ends well for us writer types. Nobody gets out alive, of course, but is it too much to ask that just one of us goes in our sleep with the knowledge that what we did actually mattered,”
― Brian Keene, End of the Road

“Take a bridge away, and people become islands. That’s what has happened in this country now. The bridges that used to exist between us have been swamped and destroyed. Those bridges are overrun. They are burned down and blasted. And now, all across America, every day is post-Hurricane Katrina.”
― Brian Keene, End of the Road

“You can teach an artist about the various rules and disciplines of their creative field. You can teach a writer about grammar and point-of-view and plot tropes. You can teach them to write every day and read every day. But you can’t teach them drive and you can’t teach them determination. Most of all, you can’t teach patience. An artist either has these things or they don’t. The artist who has these things will most likely achieve some degree of success.”
― Brian Keene, End of the Road

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”
― Brian Keene, End of the Road

“careers get stuck in a perennial state of agitated stagnation.”
― Brian Keene, End of the Road