You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.