My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire. You wait ‘till mom finds out, buddy!
—Sam from The Lost Boys
There are three things every town in the country has in common: a church, a secret, and a bully ready to tear the head off a skinny kid who couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag.
—Robert McCammon “Boy’s Life”
If there’s anything that pulls people in, it’s a loudmouth and the smell of Satan in the air like charred meat on a griddle.
—Robert McCammon “Boy’s Life”
Mom told me that Vernon used to be all right, but he’d written a book and gone to New York with it and a year later he was back home wandering around nude and nutty.
—Robert McCammon “Boy’s Life”
There is only one genuinely ghastly thing hack jobs do to writers, and that is to waste their precious time.
—Kurt Vonnegut, on day jobs (via austinkleon)
(via austinkleon)
The first draft is nothing more than a starting point, so be wrong as fast as you can.
—— Andrew Stanton (via visentin)
(Source: gointothestory.com, via visentin)