“He had great faith in Oy. Or maybe it was love. Or maybe those things were the same.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — 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
“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Mia shrugged. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You have forgotten the doctrine of your own church, is it not so? The cross…the bread and wine…the confessional…only symbols. Without faith,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Certainly we have all been taught since earliest childhood that what the monster does when it catches you in the deep wood… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Cuthbert and Alain still carried an erroneous belief common to many boys their age: that their elders were also their betters, at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver’s soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that… — 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
