A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to… — 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
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will… — 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 did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time,… — 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
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write 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
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