Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

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

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

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.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.