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
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
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible. — 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
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these… — 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
She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then… — 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
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