Stephen King Quotes

If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far....

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you...

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of you...

That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

The man in black smiled. Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?I thought we had been.But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. Shall there be truth between us, as two...

The medical definition of is misdiagnosis.

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in b...

Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fall...

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's w...

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race. —Iris Murdoch Nuns and Soldiers

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

Thomas Ross appears to have been something of a rarity: a socially conscious young man.