I wish that someone would break into my dreams and give me an idea half as good as Inception.

Damon Lindelof

Writing in London subconsciously affects the spelling of my favourite words.

Damon Lindelof

Rule 63a. Always make the bad guy smarter, thereby putting the good guy in an unwinnable situation. No, I’m not talking about Pan Am.

Damon Lindelof

Every line of Trek script I write is another inspiration for a band name. Full Impulse. Evasive Maneuvers. Dammit Man. The Illogicals.

Damon Lindelof

I write because I can’t help but make things up. I write because I love to tell stories. I write because my imagination compels me to do so. I write because if I didn’t, I’d be branded a pathological liar. Oh, and also because I’m still trying to make my dead father proud of me. But that’s none of your goddamn business.

Damon Lindelof

The color white is the absence of memory.

Stephen King

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

Stephen King, On Writing

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn’t have time to buy any rope or pitons.

Stephen King

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters’ theses.

Stephen King

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn’t belong in a smart people’s club.

Stephen King, On Writing