Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
True sorrow is as rare as true love.
The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
Mister, we deal in lead.
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk h...
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to...
If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside....
I tend to scare myself.
Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Weird love's better than no love at all.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Long days and pleasant nights.
In these silences something may rise