Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.