For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a… — 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
“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart. — 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
