Stephen King Quotes

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.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

A person can't change all at once.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Sometimes dead is better

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

A change is as good as a rest.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

Mister, we deal in lead.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair