It is the tale, not he who tells it. - Stephen King

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses."