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Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.
Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.
I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much
Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.
I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.
What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.
The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.
Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.
Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.
The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.