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

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.