Stephen King — "You can't please all the people all the time, and you shouldn't even try."

"The best fiction is often the most honest."

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

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"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…"

"I was going to have a gravestone that said not in my lifetime. Right, but uh somebody sent me a t-shirt at the end of last year that said 'Now I can die in peace.' That's very nice, I thought was real…"