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 Copy Share Image
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...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 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
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 Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
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
“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
“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
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“¿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
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
