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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“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

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“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

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

“As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope”
― Dean Koontz

“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.”
― Dean Koontz

“Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it. ”
― Dean Koontz

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

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

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King

“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield