Stephen King

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

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.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

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.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

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.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.