I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for lifeโs essential absurdity.
Stephen KingI believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
Stephen KingPoe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
Stephen KingI have spent a good many years sinceโtoo many, I thinkโbeing ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
Stephen King