--- title: "9 Bad thing Quotes By Stephen King" description: "9 Bad thing quotes by Stephen King. Plus more from Stephen King and more Bad thing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b13/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_that-s-not-such-a-bad-thing-he-said-to-m_1867553.jpg" --- > [That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/that-s-not-such-a-bad-thing-he-said-to-me-in-nightmares-we-can-think/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b13/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_that-s-not-such-a-bad-thing-he-said-to-m_1867553.jpg) > [“...people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/people-always-want-a-reason-for-the-bad-things-in-life-sometimes/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d7/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_people-always-want-a-reason-for-the-bad_43742.jpg) > [“CHAPTER NINETEEN OUTSIDE 217 Danny was remembering the words of someone else who had worked at the Overlook during the season: Her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/chapter-nineteen-outside-217-danny-was-remembering-the-words-of/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_chapter-nineteen-outside-217-danny-was-r_2031738.jpg) > [A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/a-little-arrogance-or-even-a-lot-isn-t-such-a-bad-thing-although-your/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86c/stephen-king-13_age_a-little-arrogance-or-even-a-lot-isn-t-s_2642724.jpg) > [“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/one-of-the-really-bad-things-you-can-do-to-your-writing-is-to-dress-2/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_one-of-the-really-bad-things-you-can-do_402760.jpg) > [“Well, Ullman fired her on account of her saying she’d seen something in one of the rooms where … well, where a bad thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/well-ullman-fired-her-on-account-of-her-saying-she-d-seen-something/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_well-ullman-fired-her-on-account-of-her_1468992.jpg) > [“Something went wrong a few years ago and I knew it was a bad thing but I didn't know it was bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/something-went-wrong-a-few-years-ago-and-i-knew-it-was-a-bad-thing/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_something-went-wrong-a-few-years-ago-and_2094869.jpg) > [One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/one-of-the-really-bad-things-you-can-do-to-your-writing-is-to-dress/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/stephen-king-13_ashamed_one-of-the-really-bad-things-you-can-do_28382.jpg) > [“Put your vocabulary on the top shelf of your toolbox, and don't make any conscious effort to improve it... One of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/put-your-vocabulary-on-the-top-shelf-of-your-toolbox-and-don-t-make/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_put-your-vocabulary-on-the-top-shelf-of_1908865.jpg) ## Other authors on Bad thing ## More by Stephen King > [Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/shall-there-be-truth-between-us-as-two-men-not-as-friends-but-as/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-worst-advice-don-t-listen-to-the-critics-i-think-that-you-really/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/october-3-2017-the-clown-hagarty-said-looked-like-a-cross-between/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/eddie-saw-great-things-and-near-misses-albert-einstein-as-a-child-not/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/it-hurt-of-course-but-more-often-than-not-the-best-things-do-i-ve/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-idea-that-creative-endeavor-and-mind-altering-substances-are/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-sun-had-burned-through-and-the-day-had-gone-from-dull-to-dazzling/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-you-had-enough-time-to-have-been-through-it-three-times-you-ve/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/flakes-of-snow-swirled-and-danced-across-the-porch-the-overlook-faced/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-that-instant-it-all-seemed-to-come-clear-to-him-it-came-in-a/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/who-gets-to-be-best-liked-in-any-community-who-is-the-most-trusted/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/lo-ves-tonto-volvi-a-rega-arse-t-lo-inventaste-todo-gato-asustado-no/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/death-but-not-for-you-that-was-what-walter-clever-as-satan-even-at/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-ghost-story-movie-that-scared-me-the-most-was-the-changeling-with/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/climb-aboard-jonesy-i-m-going-to-send-you-up-where-the-air-is-rare/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-thing/stephen-king/#itemlist", "name": "9 Bad thing Quotes By Stephen King", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. 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