“Atonement was powerful; it was the lock on the door you closed against the past.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift." George Amberson/ Jake… — 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
“This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“OH SHIT! I BELIEVE IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS!" he shouted, and it was true: even at eleven he had observed that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Roland’s heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly… — 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
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? — 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... Creative people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He grasped the knob. It was engraved with a wild rose wound around a revolver, one of those great old guns from… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was… — 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
“When my first draft of a novel is done, I put it away, warts and all, to mellow. Some period of time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away...” — 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
I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why do you keep looking back there?" the guy in charge had asked. "From time to time I need an antidote," Eddie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. — 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
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
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 wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire’s time has come.” — 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
