Quotes from Stephen King

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. "You came!" Jake shouted. "You really came!" "I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.