There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.