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
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — 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
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into… — 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 started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery… — 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
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I haven't been thinking at all, not really, I've just been following the steps. The recipe. & this is like turning a… — stephen king Copy Share Image
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks'… — 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
“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed… — 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
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority,… — 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
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
