People Quotes by Stephen King

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

— Stephen King

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

— Stephen King

“I don't like people. They fuck me up.”

— Stephen King

When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

— Stephen King

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

— Stephen King

People can be stunningly unobservant.

— Stephen King

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

— Stephen King

“People are only rational on the surface.”

— Stephen King

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

— Stephen King

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

— Stephen King

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

— Stephen King

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut…

— Stephen King

...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...

— Stephen King

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

— Stephen King

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

— Stephen King

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results…

— Stephen King

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the…

— Stephen King

There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of…

— Stephen King

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that…

— Stephen King

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important…

— Stephen King

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might…

— Stephen King

“The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short…

— Stephen King

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little…

— Stephen King

My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely…

— Stephen King

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin…

— Stephen King

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on…

— Stephen King

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so…

— Stephen King

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to…

— Stephen King

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

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know…

— Stephen King

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country…

— Stephen King

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

— Stephen King

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of…

— Stephen King

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine…

— Stephen King

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

— Stephen King

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

— Stephen King

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this…

— Stephen King

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

— Stephen King

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

— Stephen King