A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

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.