Books are a uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."

"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly."

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"To write is human, to edit is divine."