Stephen King Quotes

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Bad chances were better than no chances.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

And then the world exploded.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

Only God gets things right the first time.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

We all float down here!

Nora Roberts is cool.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

Politics always change. Stories never do.

You say true, I say thankya.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

You have to go where the book leads you.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Adults are the real monsters.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.