I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — 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
