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.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

True love always happens in a flash.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

To the devil with false modesty.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.