Stephen King

"I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read."This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons."

"When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

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

"Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze."

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."

"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."

"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."

"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."

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

"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."

"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

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

"If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?"

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

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

"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."