What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
There’s always someone who knows something.
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
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 mystery of the universe is not time but size.
The most important things are the hardest 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 no mor...
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out th...
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...
Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee ol...
Some things were better lost than found.
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life.
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Long days and pleasant nights.
Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.
Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.
It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper da...
It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.