This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

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