Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

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

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.