“Pops gave him a cool stare that settled Tom down - a thing not always easy to do. "Son, do you know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don't understand this at all. I don't understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics... culture...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A town’s history is like a rambling old mansion filled with rooms and cubbyholes and laundry-chutes and garrets and all sorts of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use the toilet.… — 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
“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Any big hotels have got scandals," he said. "Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Speaking carefully, not stuttering (he has not stuttered in better than five years), he says: “I don’t understand this at all. I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“there’s an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. Was there ever a bigger knothole in human history… — 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
