I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was.Who was it, Don? Harold Gardner asked softly.It was Derry, Don Hagarty said. It was this town.
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from...
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
A change is as good as a rest.
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and liv...
God makes it all come right in the end, that's what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted company. I was raised a Christian-I admit I fell away a bit along my journey-and I believe that: we'r...
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I a...
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too m...
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? An...
The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.
Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.