Ben Stark

“Fooood,” said the stranger. “Yes. Cutlet, hash, chop, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, collops, soufflé, dumpling, blancmange, sorbet, gruel, sausage, not to have a sausage, beans, without a bean, kickshaws, jelly, jam. Giblets.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“(what is so delicately exciting to the imagination as a box of fresh computer disks or a ream of blank paper?),”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“No one could be following us yet?” the Spaniard asked. “No one,” the Sicilian assured him. “It would be inconceivable.” “Absolutely inconceivable?” “Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable,” the Sicilian reassured him. “Why do you ask?” “No reason,” the Spaniard replied. “It’s only that I just happened to look back and something’s there.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride