I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. – Stephen King
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that weve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. – 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
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. – Stephen King
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers