Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.
I’ve killed enough of the world’s trees.
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person.
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.
Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won’t govern, he should resign.
It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.
Pain is the biggest power of love.
Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author’s ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
A short story is like a kiss in the dark.
A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It’s better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.