Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — 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
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things… — 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
We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships… — 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
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
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