“You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.” — 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
“...people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence… — 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
“Remember, cool is not a way of life; it's a state of being. Like your height. I can't help being 6'3", and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Loss changes you. Sometimes that's bad. Sometimes it's good. Either way, you eat your goddam pork chop and go on.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — 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
“It was possible, he supposed, to outsmart yourself. To go into the tunnel of love with girl A, screw girl B, come… — 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
The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you… — 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
“There were no violins or warning bells when I pulled the janitor’s theme off the top of the stack and set it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Well then, I'm going to tell you a secret almost every newspaper man and woman who's been at it awhile knows: in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[...] in his experience, reversion was the nature of things-people who had given up smoking (he touched the cigarette cocked behind his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The good-natured back-and-forth they had always had, the ease of their collaborations on projects and meals and parenting responsibilities, the comfortable pleasure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. “Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. “Death is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You shine on, boy. Harder than anyone I ever met in my life. And I’m sixty years old this January.” “Huh?” “You… — 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
But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Never before in his life had he understood how subjective, how plastic, time really is.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. — 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
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
“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
“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
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“¿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
“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
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
“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
![“[...] in his experience, reversion was the nature of things-people who had given up smoking (he touched the cigarette cocked behind his ear without being aware of it) wanted to go on smoking, and pictures that had been hanging crooked since Nixon was President wanted to go on hanging crooked.” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a89/stephen-king-13_life_in-his-experience-reversion-was-the-natu_1795222.jpg)
