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

There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows