Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — 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
The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of. — 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
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
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the… — 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
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
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there… — 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
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or… — 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
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory… — 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
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
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 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
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
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
