“In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if… — 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
Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a… — 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
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This… — 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
I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell… — 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
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have. — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
