Warning: Contains spoilers for Stephen King's novel, and potential spoilers for IT: Chapter Two. As far as film adaptations go, the IT movie is pretty faithful to Stephen King's 1986 novel.

Anyone who started reading Stephen King at a young age likely has a few ... That's why the full quote resonated so strongly with me: “The most important things are the hardest to say.

Stephen King was a master of one of the most important rules of writing. That rule is to show and not tell. Like King, Prine was also a master of this rule and seemingly followed it to a tee.

When an author has been writing for as long as Stephen King, it's inevitable that readers will debate which decade of their career has been the best.