Dave Gottfred

“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up in the sky overhead and the light turns a queer purple-yellow and the wind dies completely.”
― Stephen King, It

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

“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King

“The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis