If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it … - Stephen King

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.