Stephen King Quotes
Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother
she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands
What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.
There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.
Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.
The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...
Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.
Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed
In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.
He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!
Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.
A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.
She can't help it, ' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...
Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.
Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.
It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining
One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.
But it is. It’s something you need, and that’s a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we need it. What we don’t need is a man who can’t let go of the useless baggage of his memories.
By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.