“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Some memories battened onto a person's mind like evil leeches, and certain words could bring them instantly back to squirming, feverish life.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Remember, cool is not a way of life; it's a state of being. Like your height. I can't help being 6'3", and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Loss changes you. Sometimes that's bad. Sometimes it's good. Either way, you eat your goddam pork chop and go on.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was possible, he supposed, to outsmart yourself. To go into the tunnel of love with girl A, screw girl B, come… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don't know if a little tickle of psychic ability means we are divine; there are plenty of people who can accept… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don’t we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable, by the nature of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I slapped her across the face. I didn’t think about it, I just did it, and few things in my adult life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. — 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