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“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

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”
― Stephen King

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman