Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living?… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — 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
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
