Inspirational Quotes by Stephen King

Zombies are the new vampire.

— Stephen King

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

— Stephen King

True love always happens in a flash.

— Stephen King

Time is a face on the water.

— Stephen King

“A veces los perros perdidos vuelven a casa.”

— Stephen King

All Thing Serve the Beam

— Stephen King

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

— Stephen King

To write is human, to edit is divine.

— Stephen King

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

— Stephen King

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

— Stephen King

I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

— Stephen King

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

— Stephen King

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

— Stephen King

“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.”

— Stephen King

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

— Stephen King

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.”

— 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

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

— Stephen King

“Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't…

— Stephen King

“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do”

— Stephen King

“After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.”

— Stephen King

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

— Stephen King

“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've…

— Stephen King

Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with…

— Stephen King

“Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything…

— Stephen King

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with…

— Stephen King

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives…

— Stephen King

“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.…

— Stephen King

“There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don’t understand is because you’re not one of those people.…

— Stephen King

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

— Stephen King

Never give a good politician time to pray.

— Stephen King

Death is when the monsters get you.

— Stephen King

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

— Stephen King

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

— Stephen King

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

— Stephen King

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

— Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

— Stephen King