Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my... - Stephen King

"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."

"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."

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

"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something"

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