Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.