It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That life was richer,' a voice deep in his mind whispered. 'This one is truer,' whispered another, even deeper.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one!” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everybody g-g-goofs it. But it's not an eh-eh-exam. You just go through it the b-b-best you can” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...I'm ANGRY. I know life is hard, I think EVERYONE knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Stand right there. If your ass loses contact with that wall, you are going to lose contact with life as you have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead on the morning of October 6; no one knew it was. Like the bodies of previous… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What chance?’ she had asked, bewildered. ‘Your chance. Your chance to live your own life. Right now you have the look of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. I spent the first twelve years or so of my married life assuring myself… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here is the final truth of horror movies: They do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to live with a drug addict,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into The Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank. As… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I love my life and my wife and kids, but I've always been somewhat quasi-suicidal, constantly wanting to push things past the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“... because I happen to think - this is just my personal opinion - that the only lower form of life than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I like a woman who hasn’t decided the kitchen’s a place of slavery just because she works for a livin.” “I feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is… — 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
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