“Indeed he did, and we never cease wanting what we want, whether it’s good for us or not. Wouldn’t you say so,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course... but you don't have to.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — 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
I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Just don't expect to get what you want unless we decide its what you need - this isn't a hotel.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — 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