I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
Anne RiceI am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
Anne RiceWeโre going to die and not even know. Weโll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we wonโt any longer be witnesses to it. We wonโt have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. Weโll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!
Anne Rice