Stephen King Quotes

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.

You say true, I say thankya.

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's father getting shot by the hunter and Bambi's mother getting crisped. But that's the way it's always been. This is the sort of material that appeals to kids. Kids understand it instinctively. They grip it.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

I can see your dirtypillows.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

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

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

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

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.