When creative people do their best work, they’re hardly ever in charge, they’re just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
For a woman a man will do many things that he’d turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he’d back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.
Sometimes loving eyes don’t see what they don’t want to see.
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.
I think that’s what people most always do with the stuff they can’t make out – just forget it.
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.
Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, ‘Man, I’d really like to go out with her.’ But you can’t. At least not until the old idea is finished.
The past is obdurate.
So what, ghosts can’t hurt you. That’s what I thought then.
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark.
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.
Explanations are such cheap poetry.
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.
The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
Weird love’s better than no love at all.
It’s a hard life if you don’t weaken.
A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. – Roland Deschain.
I can’t lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.