Stephen King

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

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

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.