Quote by Stephen King (b. 1947)

• Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

• The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

• Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.

• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

• When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.