Stephen King
Stephen King is the only author I have read (save a few books here and there) since I was 13. Most people think he is a horror novelist, but his best works are far from that.
For some reason his thoughts, writing, and way of describing the world really speak to me. He can describe the deepest depression with knowing clarity, he can make you fall in love with his characters so much that you miss them when the book is over, he… can do anything, at least for me. There is the old question of “If you could meet anyone, alive or dead, who would it be?” Mine would be SK without question.
Below are some quotes from various books of his…you should read them all.
“Go, then, there are other worlds than these.”
“Only equals speak the truth…friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”
“Clear communication between selves - the surface self and deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”
“Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
“No great loss.”
“I do not aim with my hand;
He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.
I do not shoot with my hand;
He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun;
He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”