All Stephen King Quotes
- If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work. Inspirational
- Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me Inspirational
- If you can read in the 21st century you own the world. Century
- If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud. Cannot Horrify
- I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If… Album
- I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day. All
- As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. Character
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome… All
- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them. Ashamed
- The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. Book
- I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now. Dead
- When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds. Course
- Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. Bite
- Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my… Bad
- Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill… All
- He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst… Appreciate
- 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 sky and you're… Alive
- Writing is seduction. Inspirational
- But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you… Book
- Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life. Act
- ...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine. Any
- Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex,… Blending
- "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple… Bemused
- Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't… Believe
- It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also… All