Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.