Stephen King

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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

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 Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

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.

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 dead spots in life.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.