Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You… — 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
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — 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
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, 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
