Stephen King

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

"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 think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."

"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."

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

"Without story books is like a person with no soul."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."

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

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

"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."