Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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

In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.