I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

Gain confidence and you banish fear.

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

As for two years from now... who know where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.