“You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“From outside came a sudden and loud music of birds celebrating their existence.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don't know the nature of the beast it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life—not even if that life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Picking oranges in Florida. Pushing a broom in New Orleans. Mucking out horse-stalls in Lufkin, Texas. Handing out real estate brochures on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Well then, I'm going to tell you a secret almost every newspaper man and woman who's been at it awhile knows: in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Beings too hideous to comprehend, according to Mr. C., and Mr. C. was a gentleman who dealt death for a living.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
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… — Stephen King Copy Share
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
