Stephen King

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

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

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.