All Stephen King Quotes
- Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even… Any
- The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings… Ear
- It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. Cast
- Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. Art
- You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the… Act
- Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story. Bad
- Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth… Book
- Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%. Draft
- What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not… All
- Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. Existing
- There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate. Eternity
- It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute… Blue
- And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the… All
- He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times… Been
- What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? Begins
- Madness is a kind of mental suicide. Depression
- Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated… Adult
- Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. Cut
- So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide… Beyond
- They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very… Afraid
- The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. Abyss
- He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much… Been
- He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot. Dumped
- You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think… All
- I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. Good