“She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple”
“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair”
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
“I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?”
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.? Stephen King, The Shining”
“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
“Memory is the basis of every journey.”
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows”
“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.