Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
I never saw any of my dads stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. – Stephen King
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when were children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether theyre scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, its pretty much in the eye of the beholder. – Stephen King
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, its all there, at least the basic elements of it. You cant change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. – Stephen King