Quotes from Stephen King

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

We're here to fuck shit up

It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I don't like people. They fuck me up.

What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.