Jason Darrell > Jason's Quotes

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
― Clive Barker

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story”
― Ray Bradbury

“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”
― Ray Bradbury

“Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger