The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head to n...
The mystery of the universe is not time but size.
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must...
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.
Thousands of grasshoppers jumped wildly to get out of his way as he walked toward them, and Larry thought: I’m their plague. I’m their dark man.
Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?
We all float down here!
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
What was in Cap City that would take four English teachers there in the middle of summer vacation? Harlan Coben, Terry said.
When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story, he said. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to w...
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
Where the world ends is where you must begin
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
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