Iโve always said to people, "I donโt care what you call me as long as the checks donโt bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.
Stephen KingBut I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I donโt think itโs in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
Stephen KingI like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. Thatโs 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book โ something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.
Stephen KingThe exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling โ a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.
Stephen King