Night Shift

by Stephen King

If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing.

Then you have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

“. . . a wonderful movie for people who like to slow down and look at car accidents.” It's a good snappy line, but when you stop and think about it, it applies to all horror films and stories.

No need to belabor the obvious; life is full of horrors small and large, but because the small ones are the ones we can comprehend, they are the ones that smack home with all the force of mortality.

love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.