Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — 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
The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — 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
