And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.