Stephen King
Stephen KingAn Apology is the kool-aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Description is that which must begin in the writer's imagination but should finish in the reader's.
Discipline is, along with constant work, the whetstone upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
Dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity... there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Fiction's object is to make one forget, whenever possible, that one is reading a story at all.
Grief is that for which time nothing but blunt its sharpest edge so that it hacks rather than slices.
