Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
And then the world exploded.
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
you must not come lightly to the blank page.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.
When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled t...
What she discovered was mostly shelves of battered paperbacks, not exactly the insulation she’d had in mind, and when the dynamite bundle exploded in the room next door, she was pelted with Nora Rober...
We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
Want your boat, Georgie?' Pennywise asked. 'I only repeat myself because you really do not seem that eager.' He held it up, smiling. He was wearing a baggy silk suit with great big orange buttons. A b...
Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them th...
Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyh...
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.