I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

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.