Stephen King Quotes

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

where the world ends is where you must begin

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

In these silences something may rise

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

I write to find out what I think.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.