“Perhaps so, but you’re all out of running room. Embrace it. Swallow it. Take steam or die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At fifty-one you had to keep running just to escape the avalanche of your own past.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a… — 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
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of… — 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
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