You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up