For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

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

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.