I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I done a few things in my life that I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I ever felt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I love my life and my wife and kids, but I've always been somewhat quasi-suicidal, constantly wanting to push things past the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everybody g-g-goofs it. But it's not an eh-eh-exam. You just go through it the b-b-best you can” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my… — 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
“This is a place of death, he thought, and not just here. All these rooms. Every floor. Yes, gunslinger, whispered the Voice… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To this point in his life, Jake had been aware of only three feelings about his father: puzzlement, fear, and a species… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Good luck, Big Bill", Ben thought, and he turned away from that gaze. It was hurting him, hurting him in a deeper… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the fifties... when they had their summer parties - there were always different colored lanterns on the lawn... and I get… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into The Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank. As… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here is the final truth of horror movies: They do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to live with a drug addict,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one!” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That life was richer,' a voice deep in his mind whispered. 'This one is truer,' whispered another, even deeper.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She had brought graze to his life. It wasn't a word that had occurred to him until she was gone.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living?… — 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
