Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Good books are for consideration after, too.

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.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.