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I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.

— Stephen King an edition of I Am Legend (1995)

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I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.

Hearts in Atlantis (1999)

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Christine (1983)

Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room!

Everything's Eventual (2002)

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don't think it's in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.

Bag of Bones (1998)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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