Way Quotes by Stephen King

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

— Stephen King

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

— Stephen King

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

— Stephen King

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

— Stephen King

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

— Stephen King

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

— Stephen King

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

— Stephen King

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way,…

— Stephen King

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart…

— Stephen King

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be…

— Stephen King

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to…

— Stephen King

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did…

— Stephen King

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The…

— Stephen King

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I…

— Stephen King

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness…

— Stephen King

My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely…

— Stephen King

The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She…

— Stephen King

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,…

— Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around.…

— Stephen King

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery…

— Stephen King

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot…

— Stephen King

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each…

— Stephen King

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life…

— Stephen King

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to…

— Stephen King

When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships…

— Stephen King

There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside…

— Stephen King

Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door…

— Stephen King

A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often…

— Stephen King

The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst…

— Stephen King

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her,…

— Stephen King

Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I…

— Stephen King

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

— Stephen King

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to…

— Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.…

— Stephen King

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why…

— Stephen King

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

— Stephen King

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have…

— Stephen King

When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as…

— Stephen King

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