Stephen King Quotes

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought...

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I a...

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was.Who was it, Don? Harold Gardner asked softly.It was Derry, Don Hagarty said. It was this town.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situati...