Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

The best defense is a good story.

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.