“Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.”

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”

“The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.”

“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”

“I'm not laughing at you guys," King said. "It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.”

“The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies”

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”