The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world of character my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past just as it is bound to modify the future.