“...then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why does she have to be such a...such a..." "Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son." "Such a bitch!” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. There’s some pretty good homegrown… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Henry had already gotten his deer, a good-sized doe, and Jonesy had an idea Pete cared a lot more about making sure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She gave him a strange maternal grin. For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He had never hated her for healing…She had done her time in hell...But she had come out. There had been Before, there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was the look the talented wear when, after years of just moving sleepily along from pillar to post, they are finally… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Before marrying Vic, she had been a librarian in the Westchester school system, and her own private nightmare had always been telling… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Something in the fog!" he screamed, and Billy shrank against me-whether because of the man's bloody nose or what he was saying,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. Death is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“As his arms went around her, she wondered how much of the human race understood about hugging- how good it was, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Below the waterbag were his guns,finely weighted to his hand. The two belts crisscrossed above his crotch. The holsters were oiled too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Abrakadabra, und alles verwandelt sich in einen großen Haufen Scheiße.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Er hatte sich dann an seine Lebensaufgabe gemacht, die darin bestand, so langsam und angenehm wie möglich Selbstmord zu begehen.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If I am dead, why aren't I either gone or in the white light they 're always talking about on Oprah” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift." George Amberson/Jake Epping… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Paul McCartney, the ex-Beatle Brady's mom used to call Old Spaniel Eyes, is getting a medal at the White House. Why is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
