My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.