Stephen King

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.'”

“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”