I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.
Stephen KingThe shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.
Stephen KingWhen love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.
Stephen KingI'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
Stephen King