Stephen King Quotes

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.

I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

Tony, Tony, come around, something's lost that can't be found.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies

College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.