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.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.