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Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and Richie thought she would cry. Inst...more

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Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

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When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

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People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for ...more

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In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

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He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that ...more

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Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

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Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...more

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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

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They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads ou...more

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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascin...more

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What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

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When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.