Michael Zuffa > Michael's Quotes

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. ”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“SSDD Same Shit Different Day”
― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

“No bounce, no play.”
― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“Books were escape. Books were freedom.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable of doing it, but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key