Stephen King

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.