“Those who do not learn the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I didn't want salvation. I was either past that point or never reached it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In time, words might enchant an enchanter. Do you take my meaning Gunslinger?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“America’s two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we’ve all heard plenty of both in our time.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Time healed all wounds. Of course, as some wag had pointed out, it also wounds all heels.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late… — 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
I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“ It doesn't have to be the last good time. But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Roland was far from the relentless creature he would eventually become, but the seeds of that relentlessness were there—small, stony things that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things… — 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
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When my first draft of a novel is done, I put it away, warts and all, to mellow. Some period of time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You see, Noah got drunk this one time on the Ark, and he was a-layin on his bed, naked as a jaybird.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“until the next time, when, in the grip of the nightmare, all fears will be remembered.” — 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
Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You know the price of selling out the future, Sully-John? You can never really leave the past.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went." -Doctor… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools)… — 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
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
“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
“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
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“¿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
“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
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
“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
