Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.