Stephen King — "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, …"

"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 yo…"

"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."

"I go out to my little office, where I've got a manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, and it's like getting on a taxiway. I'm able to go through and revise it and put m…"

"Humor is almost always a subversive element. It's a way to make people think about things they don't want to think about."

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"