I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.
Stephen KingCome to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
Stephen KingAnger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.
Stephen KingShe felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
Stephen KingI think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.
Stephen King