Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with a few pictures of Sheila and Cathy, a receipt for a shoe sole he had replaced at the...

It’s hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else’s.

Ya no se trataba sólo de «,Puedes?» para empezar el libro. Por primera vez en muchos años, escuchaba aquella pregunta casi cada día y… estaba descubriendo que podía.

En esos momentos se había puesto a escribir, no porque tuviese que hacerlo, sino porque era una forma de escapar de los problemas.

Baseball is also a game of balance.

It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

So what, ghosts can’t hurt you. That’s what I thought then.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn’t such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. “Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen”, she said… and then I found out –...

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….

Sometimes dead is better

You ought to sue that son of a whore

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What...

remember Stephen King’s First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don’t need one until you’re making enough for someone to steal … and if you’re making that much, you’ll be...

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please, I’m suh-suh-SORRY—” And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didn’t know who, Beverly maybe, or maybe Ben, or...

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Pain is the biggest power of love.” That’s what Wireman says.

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

You have the right to remain silent,’ the big cop said in his robot’s voice. ‘If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of...

The silence wasn’t uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted–the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

…staring into thin air at thosethings only cats can see (Doctro Sleep)

Solo. Sí, esa es la palabra clave, la palabra más tremenda. Asesino no le llega a los talones, e infierno no es más que un pálido sinónimo.

In the years since, I’ve discovered there’s a lot to be said for boredom.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

You might question a winkle – a feeling that came to you right out of the blue – but you didn’t question knowing.

Of course, the writer can impose control; It’s just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called “plotting.” Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however… that is called “storytelling.” Storytelling is...

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success,...

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and...

But in the wake of ‘Bullet,’ all the guys wanted to know was, ‘How’s it doing? How’s it selling?’ How to tell them I didn’t give a flying fuck how it was doing in the...

Andy was the part of me they could never lock up, the part of me that will rejoice when the gates finally open for me and I walk out in my cheap suit with my...

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed — not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that...

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn’t the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of...

Los ojos se me llenaron de lágrimas. El dolor del duelo es como un invitado borracho, cuando parece que se ha marchado, vuelve a darte un último abrazo.

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

One of the few things my father says when he’s had a few that I agree with is that kids don’t have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the...

Most kids don’t give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can’t play baseball or at least come in third in the...

for the Law, as we know, will befriend whomever pays it.

Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of it—she had to be ten...

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.