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.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.