Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks'… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy… — 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
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran… — 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
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