Stephen King

“You only need to sleep.”

— Stephen King

“Those lost voices.”

— Stephen King

I tend to scare myself.

— Stephen King

“I have been true.”

— Stephen King

This is not a bad life.

— Stephen King

“Nope, nothing wrong here.”

— Stephen King

“How I wish you were fear.”

— Stephen King

“No bounce, no play.”

— Stephen King

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

— Stephen King

“Hey hey Susan Day have you killed any kids today?”

— Stephen King

“home and there it sits on the counter, going sour.”

— Stephen King

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

— Stephen King

no knowledge obtained without risk

— Stephen King

“Crazy was a hard state to define.”

— Stephen King

“Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”

— Stephen King

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

— Stephen King

“Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.”

— Stephen King

“Roland found the crude map of the Algul and put it on the floor of the cave. They all gathered around it.”

— Stephen King

“Stories take a person away. If they're good ones, that is.”

— Stephen King

“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

— Stephen King

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

— Stephen King

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

— Stephen King

“If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it? My”

— Stephen King

“This is how it goes when Homeland Security's been canceled due to lack of sanity.”

— Stephen King

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't…

— Stephen King

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.…

— Stephen King

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can…

— Stephen King

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about…

— Stephen King

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten…

— Stephen King

“I pointed at Wireman's forehead. "This is your brain," I said. Then I pointed at my easel. "This is your brain on…

— Stephen King

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel…

— Stephen King

“I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real.…

— Stephen King

“If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No.…

— Stephen King

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the…

— Stephen King

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or…

— Stephen King

“Something in the fog!" he screamed, and Billy shrank against me-whether because of the man's bloody nose or what he was saying,…

— Stephen King

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic…

— Stephen King

“The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing…

— Stephen King

What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find,…

— Stephen King

“There are thousands of talented writers at work in America, and only a few of them (I think the number might be…

— Stephen King