Warren Nast

“At every single moment during those focused periods—those flights of fancy—the writer is faced with at least seven choices of word and expression and detail. Talented ones make the right choices with almost no conscious consideration; they are pro basketball players of the mind, hitting from all over the court.” Where?”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“That was Matthew’s grandmother. Nana never avoided a controversy if she could create one.”
― Harlan Coben, The Boy from the Woods

“Hush, Helen,” the Rhinehart woman said. Maybe her first name was Sally, but David thought he would have remembered a name like that; there were so few Sallys these days. Now the world belonged to the Ambers, Ashleys, and Tiffanys. Willa was another endangered species, and just thinking that made his stomach sink down again.”
― Stephen King, Just After Sunset

“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear