“so here he sits one drunk nigger in a puclic libary after closing, with the book open in front of me and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Many writing texts caution against asking friends to read your stuff, suggesting you're not apt to get a very unbiased opinion[.] ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here was the same murmuring quiet, broken only by an occasional whisper, the faint thud of a librarian stamping books or overdue… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And, you know, I hope you have some fun with this book. Nosh and nibble at the corners or read the mother… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Susannah: (sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic. Jake: Blaine, I have one more. Blaine: EXCELLENT. Jake: Out of the eater came forth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That is not necessarily bad … but it is limiting. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — 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 probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“¿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 Image
