“When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.”

“I'm going to kill you, you lying cocksucker." -Annie Wilks”

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

“by Annie Wilkes...If you can get into that chair all by yourself, Paul, she said at last, then I think you can fill in your f******* n's.She then closed the door and locked it again. Paul sat looking at it for a long time, almost as if there was something to see. He was too flabberghasted to do anything else.”

“The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.”

“When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”

“It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.”