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.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.