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
There is a relationship between humor and fear. Think of all the gags you ever heard that have to do with dismemberment,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“¿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 Image
