Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This… — 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
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
