For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I want to make you laugh or cry when you read a story . . .or do both at the same time.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If… — 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
