A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.