“Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Those were the times that his mind would turn thoughtfully and sanely to the gun or the rope or the razor blade.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is the girl they keep calling a monster. I want you to keep that firmly in mind. The girl who could… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of… — 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
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We’re not even in the same year together, let alone the same room . . . . except we are together. We’re close. We’re having… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Any dedicated moon-watcher will know that, regardless of the year, I have taken a good many liberties with the lunar cycle-usually to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The rational part of his mind told him she was just a fragment of unremembered bad dream that had followed him out… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The same meat, at the same time, from the same butcher. Who always says the same things, unless I say something different.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No. Nerves, he thought, were for people who still hadn’t entirely made up their minds.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He said the mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.” — 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
“But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He pushed the thought into a mental closet. It was a thing he was good at. There was all sorts of stuff… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Roland said nothing, but heard the voice of Cort in his mind: Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock… — 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
