You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. — 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 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
“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
“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
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
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.… — 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
“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — 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
For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — 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
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
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
“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
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the… — 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
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
![“Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbb/stephen-king-13_accepted_everybody-wants-to-psychoanalyze-horror_3005442.jpg)
