Stephen King

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."

"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."

"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something"

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."

"It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep."

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."

"you must not come lightly to the blank page."

"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

"I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss."

"When asked, "How do you write?"I invariably answer, "One word at a time,"and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."

"When asked, "How do you write?"I invariably answer, "One word at a time,"and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."