“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Some memories battened onto a person's mind like evil leeches, and certain words could bring them instantly back to squirming, feverish life.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to… — 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
“Beings too hideous to comprehend, according to Mr. C., and Mr. C. was a gentleman who dealt death for a living.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.” — 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
“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To this point in his life, Jake had been aware of only three feelings about his father: puzzlement, fear, and a species… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is a place of death, he thought, and not just here. All these rooms. Every floor. Yes, gunslinger, whispered the Voice… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — 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
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.” — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
