Stephen King

“I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.”

“I wonder how much- or how little- they remember. I am somehow convinced that they don't remember any of it, because they don't need to remember. I'm the only one that hears the voice of the Turtle, the only one who remembers, because I'm the only one who stayed here in Derry. And because they're scattered to the four winds, they have no way of knowing the identical patterns their lives have taken. To bring them back, to show them that pattern....yes, it might kill some of them. It might kill all of them.”

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

“He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.”

“You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.”

“Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.”

“I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.”

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

“In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

“The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.”

“אני לא גבר גדול במיוחד, ואפילו שאני מנסה לשמור על כושר, אני בכל זאת כבר בן שישים ומשהו.”

“התכוונתי לגרור אותו אחורה גם אם הוא לא ירצה לבוא, כי כלבים צריכים לדעת מי הבוס.”

“הם חושבים שהמבוגרים לא יודעים מה הם אומרים, שאנחנו לא מקשיבים להם.”

“כעת, כשהיה כבר ערני לחלוטין, ניעור בלבו גם זעם בנוסף לפחד.”

“אין דבר טיפשי יותר מלגנוב פריטים שלעולם לא תוכל למכור.”

“הוא נראה כמעט עצוב.”

“הוא פרש את זרועותיו והיא הניחה לו לחבק אותה, ייחלה להישאר כך עטופה ומוגנת לפחות שעה. אולי שעתיים.”

“סגר את הדלת חרישית ופסע צעד אחד לאחור כשעל פניו הבעה שהיה ניתן לפרש בטעות כשלוות נפש.”