“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire’s time has come.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can’t change the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. — 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. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and… — 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
I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — 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
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He grasped the knob. It was engraved with a wild rose wound around a revolver, one of those great old guns from… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the Land of Memory, the time is always Now. In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick . . . but their hands never… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Her soul knew a moment's calm, as if it had been uncrumpled and smoothed under an iron.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“At first Nick was able to divide this fantasy from reality, but as time passed, he became more sure that the fantasy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Of course you will, Hodges thinks. You might think you know what you’re risking, but you don’t. When you’re seventeen, the future… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Those were the times that his mind would turn thoughtfully and sanely to the gun or the rope or the razor blade.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why do you keep looking back there?" the guy in charge had asked. "From time to time I need an antidote," Eddie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I done a few things in my life that I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I ever felt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning… — 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
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the… — 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
![“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/stephen-king-13_first-time_the-writer-voiceover-i-was-12-going-on-1_1318694.jpg)
