"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
— Stephen King

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin