“There’s 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
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
I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’ll do whatever you want,” Trash said gratefully in the dream. “My life for you! My soul for you!” “I will set… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and… — 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
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — 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
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then… — 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
I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free. — 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
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
“Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.” — 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
“Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly… — 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
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the… — 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
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
