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I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.
...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants
What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.
The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.
Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.
I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.
God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.