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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.
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.
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.
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.
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
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.
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.
God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.
God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.
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.
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.
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.
you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.