When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.