“In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Some days are treasure. Not many but I think in almost every life there are a few.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When a codependent is drowning, somebody else’s life flashes before his eyes.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“there isn’t nobody that can live a natural life without having a few bad dreams.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure. If you want to play, you gotta pay, You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I love gas,” he said, and turned on one of the burners. Blue flame popped into life and he adjusted it down… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. I spent the first twelve years or so of my married life assuring myself… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — 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
“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There were times—especially in summer, while swallowing my afternoon salt-pill—when it occurred to me that I was simply repeating my mother’s life.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It’s all of a piece, I thought. It’s an echo so close to perfect you can’t tell which one is the living… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes God dillies and dallies,’ Steve said, ‘and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life… I want you to miss appointments,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“All at once the world seemed very thin to her, more an idea than an actual thing, and barely there at all.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I like a woman who hasn’t decided the kitchen’s a place of slavery just because she works for a livin.” “I feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“... because I happen to think - this is just my personal opinion - that the only lower form of life than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — 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