Stephen King Quotes

Dirty birdy

Sometimes you get what you want, but mostly you get what you get.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swam...

Fiction is the truth inside a lie.

Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, likediamonds, was forever.

Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and...

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween

Get busy living or get busy dying.