“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books can be objects of great value. That value is created in different ways. Sometimes just the author’s signature is enough to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think… — 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
