The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to… — 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
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever… — 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