Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.
Hapscomb’s Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.
Without story books is like a person with no soul.
Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?
And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead.
Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.
But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.
We’ll just have to get along. That’s what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?
Mister, we deal in lead.
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.
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.
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
It’s like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all’s well. You get off it and the next thing you know you’re lost if you’re not lucky.