“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the Land of Memory, the time is always Now. In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick . . . but their hands never… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can’t change the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. — 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
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” — 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 the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“by Annie Wilkes... If you can get into that chair all by yourself, Paul, she said at last, then I think you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Perhaps we go to the forbidden door or window willingly because we understand that a time comes when we must go whether… — 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
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one… — 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
“You see, Noah got drunk this one time on the Ark, and he was a-layin on his bed, naked as a jaybird.… — 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
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
“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
Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools)… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went." -Doctor… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You know the price of selling out the future, Sully-John? You can never really leave the past.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when… — 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
“You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this… — 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
