Truth Quotes by Stephen King

“...sometimes the truth is cruel.”

— Stephen King

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

— Stephen King

“...sometimes the truth is beautiful.”

— Stephen King

“Words have weight.”

— Stephen King

The truth is in the details.

— Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

— Stephen King

“When I say truth, I mean beauty.”

— Stephen King

“The world was round, that was the deadly truth of it.”

— Stephen King

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

— Stephen King

“The truth is that most writers are needy.”

— Stephen King

“It's easy - too easy - to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike.”

— Stephen King

“This was a fact so simple that it defied logic. It bypassed logic.”

— Stephen King

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

— Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

— Stephen King

“imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But”

— Stephen King

“The refrigerator whirred, the water dripped in the sink, and the raw seconds passed. This was the Darker Life, where every truth…

— Stephen King

“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.”

— Stephen King

“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,…

— Stephen King

“A lawyer's answer...so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow.”

— Stephen King

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

— Stephen King

“Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!”

— Stephen King

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one…

— Stephen King

“And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.”

— Stephen King

“He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our…

— Stephen King

“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've…

— Stephen King

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your…

— Stephen King

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only…

— Stephen King

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in…

— Stephen King

“There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of…

— Stephen King

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? There is an offer you…

— Stephen King

Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an…

— Stephen King

“Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was pumped up and…

— Stephen King

“Here is the final truth of horror movies: They do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do…

— Stephen King

The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been."…

— Stephen King

“Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was…

— Stephen King

“The trust of the innocent is the liars most useful tool.”

— Stephen King

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

— Stephen King

“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”

— Stephen King

“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

— Stephen King

“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”

— Stephen King