I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t… — 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
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of… — 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
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing…… — 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
You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber 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