Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time. — 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
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the… — 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
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's… — 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
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and… — 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
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of… — 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
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