We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.... — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we… — 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
