Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

The truth is in the details.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.