Stephen King — "It's all right to fail. It's not all right to give up."

"Writing is a form of mind control. It's the ultimate control. You can make people think what you want them to think. You can make them feel what you want them to feel."

"It was the most important thing I'd ever done, and I had no idea what I was doing."

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

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

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots …"