Stephen King Quotes

I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part o...

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right...

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to fe...

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastru...

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it you were never really fat or really poor.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

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

Dancing is life.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Love leaves scars.

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to...