Stephen King

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

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

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“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 d...”

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

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

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head...”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very...”

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly o...”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.”

“Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did s...”