Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless…
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the…
Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find…
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep…