Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will n...
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
you must not come lightly to the blank page.
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them the...
Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
Bad or good, movies nearly always have a strange diminishing effect on works of fantasy (of course there are exceptions; The Wizard of Oz is an example which springs immediately to mind). In discussio...
But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.
But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Don't ask me silly questionsI won't play silly gamesI'm just a simple choo choo trainAnd I'll always be the same.I only want to race alongBeneath the bright blue skyAnd be a happy choo choo trainUntil...
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.
Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.
I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
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