As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot… — 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
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — 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
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
Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't… — 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
