Stephen King Quotes

Words have weight.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first...

The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: th...

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 isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just an...

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why? She studied him, her eyes grave. Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Horror spawns horror

Here's what vampires shouldn't be: pallid detectives that drink Bloody Marys and work only at night; lovelorn southern gentlemen; anorexic teenage girls; boy-toys with big dewy eyes. What should they...

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own lif...

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I d...

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.