Stephen King Quotes

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

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?

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light,...

Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God

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

Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and liv...

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

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

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.I aim with my eye.I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his fathe...

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

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

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? An...

I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I don't want Church to ever be dead! He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have all the damn old cat...