The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.