How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?
Have I gotten everything right? I doubt it. Not even the great Daniel Defoe did that; in Robinson Crusoe, our hero strips naked, swims out to the ship he has recently escaped....and then fills up his...
God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?
For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave,...
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something els...
Art should be a place of hope.
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Did...
A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker
Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots...
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to...