Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story
I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.
there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.
Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.
If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.
The thought process can never be complete without articulation.
It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.
Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.
Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear
Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.
Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.
I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person
How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?
Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.
Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.
Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.
They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.