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
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” — 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. The four… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“His love for his wife and son was not beautiful—no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Love is the enemy. Yes...the poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Outside the street’s on fire In a real death waltz Between what’s flesh and fantasy And the poets down here Don’t write… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, ‘All that we see… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Then her face tilted up to his, and he was looking into her eyes again. He had heard of drowning in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was the furthest thing in the world from the rosy-fingered dawn of poetry and old Technicolor movies; this was an anti-dawn,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.” — 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
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
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think—that’s a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I… — 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
