Stephen King

He leaned forward, like an English butler taking a bow and threw up on his shoes.

The lady's face had all the charm of a snow shovel.

In 11/22/63 when Jake asks something like, 'Well, what happens if I end up killing my grandfather?' And there's a pause and Al replies: 'Well, why the fuck would you do that?'

His loyalty had never FLAGGED.

Jessica was another little sparrowfart with more pimples than brains.

Are you gonna get ready for bed or just stand there like Helen Keller havin a wet dream?

I never had a bad time in the library. I never had a bad time in a bookstore.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words make them smaller than they actually are. How can you expect people to believe you when you stand there blubbering, for Christ's sake, with tears running down your face, telling them how much you love so-and-so? You can't. The important things lie too close to your true self, whatever that is, for them to be gotten at easily. You finally arrive at the truth, but it's like pulling teeth. And when you get the all-important truth out, something happens. The truth is, you've got to be a little crazy to write, and you've got to be a little crazy to read, and you've got to be a little crazy to live.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to a problem.

I think that a writer's job is to tell the truth, even if it's a lie.

You can't deny the past; you can't deny what you've done. Only by admitting who you are and what you've done can you ever hope to change.

The brain is a calculator, an especially powerful one, but it's not a heart.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

It's all right to fail. It's not all right to give up.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Some things are better left unsaid. Which I generally do. Unless I'm writing a book.

The greatest terror is the terror of the unknown.

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

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life.