She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a...
A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.
When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshi...
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don...
How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeedin...
I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.
As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all a...
The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by somethi...
Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and...
I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible -...