Stephen King: Thing

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

“Black serendipity. Maybe we know that under the right set of circumstances the things that live in the catacombs would be glad to crawl out.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”

“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”

“I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.”

“… stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say”

“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”

“It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”