Stephen King Biography

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."

"I've killed enough of the world's trees."

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries."

"For every six crappy poems you read, you'll actually find one or two good ones. And that, believe me, is a very acceptable ratio of trash to treasure."