We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

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

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.