Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable, by the nature of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don't know if a little tickle of psychic ability means we are divine; there are plenty of people who can accept… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don’t we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying—it was as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’m not scared of hell. I lived a decent life, and I don’t think there is such a place, anyway. I’m scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Oh, about beer I never lie,’ Crandall said. ‘A man who lies about beer makes enemies.” — 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
“Life’s too short for this shit,’ he had announced to his empty apartment, and that had been the end of the great… — 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