The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.