Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.