145 Quotes by Robert R. McCammon

I have been blessed, to be able to create characters and worlds out of whole cloth. Writer? Author? How about storyteller?

I never knew what hate really was until I thought of somebody wrapping up a bomb and putting it in a church on a Sunday morning to kill little girls.

Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly.

Bein’ used to somethin’,” Davy Ray answered, “is not the same as likin’ it.

I wanted no souvenirs of tragedy.

Those who babble the Lord’s Prayer day and night would be the first to grin when I’m set afire.

But my parents had taught me that everybody deserved respect, no matter if they were pansies or not, and to tell the truth, I was nothing to write home about in the physical looks department.

The Basement was an underground shelter in Delaware where the first lady, the president’s seventeen-year-old son, ranking cabinet members and staff people would – they hoped – be protected from all but a direct hit by a one-megaton nuclear warhead.

I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about “grace.” I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.