Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

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.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.