Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the... - Stephen King

"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."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"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."

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

"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."