Stephen King

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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 don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

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

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

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

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