I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The hands pulled him forward regardless. The hands of the Tower knew no mercy. They were the hands of Gan, the hands… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Kennedy entered, waving to the standing audience, an elderly gentleman in an Alpine hat and lederhosen struck up “Hail to the Chief… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She gave him a strange maternal grin. For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I done a few things in my life that I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I ever felt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He didn't just dig me; he dug me the MOST. Nothing can compare to hearing something like that from a seventeen-year-old kid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Roland knew the story and said nothing. It was Eddie who didn’t know the story, an Eddie who was really clear-headed for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find… — 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