...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep