Ifs Quotes by Stephen King

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

— Stephen King

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

— Stephen King

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

— Stephen King

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

— Stephen King

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice…

— Stephen King

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about…

— Stephen King

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless…

— Stephen King

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

— Stephen King

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for…

— Stephen King

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late…

— Stephen King

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

— Stephen King

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of…

— Stephen King

There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s…

— Stephen King

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

...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

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

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody,…

— Stephen King

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if…

— Stephen King

You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand…

— Stephen King

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,…

— Stephen King

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten…

— Stephen King

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

There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside…

— Stephen King

I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are…

— Stephen King

If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of…

— Stephen King

... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran…

— Stephen King

If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the…

— Stephen King

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear…

— Stephen King

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

— Stephen King

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's…

— Stephen King

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly…

— Stephen King

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

— Stephen King

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

— Stephen King

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

— Stephen King

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

— Stephen King

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

— Stephen King

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get…

— Stephen King

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

— Stephen King

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King