Stephen King Quotes

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all a...

Time heals all wounds.

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don...

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeedin...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshi...

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by somethi...

I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between.

I have spent a good many years sincetoo many, I thinkbeing ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line...

Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me and fed me and kept me in better days? Why will you cut me, and disfigure my face, and fill me with w...

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the oth...

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible -...

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.

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.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.