Stephen King Quotes

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show. Colin Wilson The Country of the Blind

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Weird love's better than no love at all.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled t...

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with, Dan said.

Joined the singing too, and when it was done and the applause rolled out once more, he was crying a bit himself. Rita was gone. Alice Underwood was gone. New York was gone. America was gone. Even if t...

We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.

And then the world exploded.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunio...