In the words of Stephen King:
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.
Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.
We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.
Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.
I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
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