Stephen King Quotes
This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.
The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.
It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.
Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?
A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.
By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.
It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.
the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.
