“The first morning passed, and the first afternoon, then the first shift back at work. time takes it all, whether you want… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter… — 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
I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Are you sure you wouldn't like to run? A game of tag, perhaps? All we have is time, you know. An eternity… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At 1:37 P.M. mountain time, Tierney climbed into the shotgun seat of the cruiser and said, ‘How fast does this go?’ ‘Sir!… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was a moment he remembered for years after, as though a special small slice had been cut from the cake of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time… — 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
How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Well, it would come in time. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor Akron, Ohio, for that matter. And the place didn't… — 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
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What, exactly, is impelling Jack Torrence toward murder... Is it undead people or undead memories?... perhaps those different conclusions are, in fact,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In that brief time between, the night had been a fragrant puzzle, a time when, looking up at the star-strewn sky and… — 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
“The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He had never hated her for healing…She had done her time in hell...But she had come out. There had been Before, there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar… — 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
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development.… — 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… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She came to him then and lifted her arms to be picked up, something he could not remember her doing for a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find… — 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
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He didn't just dig me; he dug me the MOST. Nothing can compare to hearing something like that from a seventeen-year-old kid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There's a gate in our heads, too-that's what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our… — 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
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