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Who would preach at the funeral? This was a question (like who cuts the barber's hair) -- Stephen King
She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special ... but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden. -- Stephen King
I am what ka and the King and the Tower have made me. We all are. We're caught. -- Stephen King
It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'. -- Stephen King
the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The -- Stephen King
There are things of such darkness and horror - just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty - that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception. -- Stephen King
drove a '61 Ford station wagon: six in a row for more go and three on the tree (if you don't know, ask your dad). -- Stephen King
Woman, I'm not Roland's sister, or his daughter, either! You maybe didn't notice a small but basic difference in the color of our hides, namely his being white and mine being black. -- Stephen King
In the old tongue which had once been his world's lingua franca, most words, like khef and ka, had many meanings. The word char, however - char as in Charlie the Choo-Choo - had only one. Char meant death. -- Stephen King
Louis Creed came to believe that the last really happy day of his life was March 24, 1984. -- Stephen King
Eddie had seen thousands, and what he was looking at was like one of those moving point-of-view shots they did in ones like Halloween and The Shining. He even knew what they called the gadget they did it with. Steadi-Cam. That was it. -- Stephen King
If Timlin's right, he thought, the bloodsuckers will inherit the earth instead of the meek. If they can find any blood to suck, that is. -- Stephen King
I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we? -- Stephen King
Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? -- Stephen King
The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there. -- Stephen King
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all. -- Stephen King
Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. -- Stephen King
Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there, because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Bangor, -- Stephen King
Was it possible, she wondered crazily, to prepare for a heart attack? Patty ran her tongue -- Stephen King
She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash. -- Stephen King
Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man's dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceiling. If there's a God, I think He needs to try a little harder. -- Stephen King
The wind roared across the empty sky, the cold deepened, but Tim Ross lay safe and warm, with a tyger sleeping beside him. At -- Stephen King
On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old. -- Stephen King
Monogamous from the chin up. Below the belt-buckle, however, there's a wahoo stampeder who just doesn't give a shit. -- Stephen King
The death of a loved one may be many things, but work is certainly one of them. She -- Stephen King
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America. -- Stephen King
Then he closed his eyes and put his hands together again before his face, finger to finger. Johnny was struck by the kid's lack of pretension. There was a simplicity about the gesture that had been honed by use into beauty. -- Stephen King
People always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one. -- Stephen King
I am the last of that green and warm-hued world. -- Stephen King
Faint and not so pleasant. "Okay," I said. "It's the pantry. Neat and fully stocked. You get an A in supply management, if there is such a thing." "What do you smell?" "Spices, mostly. Coffee. Maybe air freshener, too, I'm not sure. -- Stephen King
'Salem's Lot," he read. "A novel by Stephen King." He looked up at Eddie, then at Jake. "Heard of him? Either of you? He's not from my time, I don't think." Jake -- Stephen King
Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams -- Stephen King
Fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth. -- Stephen King
Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces. -- Stephen King
I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms. -- Stephen King
Stephen King's not the water, Susannah - he's only the pipe the water runs through. -- Stephen King
One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. -- Stephen King
Thinking, Garraty thought. That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. -- Stephen King
With pictures of Patsy, Morrie, and the three -- Stephen King
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt. -- Stephen King
This one was Justin Bieber. Justin's teeth had been blacked out, and someone had added a Notzi swat-sticker tattoo to one cheek. -- Stephen King
Definition of a wanderer, Eddie thought, a guy who's always looking beyond. -- Stephen King
Ghosts, in the end, adopt the motivations and perhaps the very souls of those who behold them. If they are malevolent, their malevolence comes from us. -- Stephen King
Never had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other. -- Stephen King
What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not. -- Stephen King
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served. -- Stephen King
Bill's voice floated up: Y-You c-c-can stay up th-there if you w-want, Ruh-Ruh-Richie. St-Stand g-g-guard. -- Stephen King
He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close. -- Stephen King
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher. -- Stephen King
Allie watched them and felt a pang of fleeting despair for the sad times of the world. Things had stretched apart There was no glue at the center of things anymore. She had never seen the ocean, never would. -- Stephen King
The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch. -- Stephen King
Tell your friends I am the last of a dying race,' it said, grinning its sunken grin as it staggered and lurched down the proch steps after her. 'The only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women ... rape all the men ... and learn to do the Peppermint Twist! -- Stephen King
I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me. -- Stephen King
And so thinking, she slipped not into sleep, but into that umbilical cord which connects sleeping and waking. -- Stephen King
It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut - it's the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts. -- Stephen King
Because when Eddie's in that fuckin zone, he could talk the devil into setting himself on fire. -- Stephen King
Eventual, as Pug used to say. When he wanted to say something was really good, he's never say it was awesome, like most people do; he'd say it was eventual. How funny is that? The old Pugmeister. I wonder how he's doing. -- Stephen King
Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. -- Stephen King
It's always the end for now, and in real life, the only full stop is on the obituary page. -- Stephen King
I never had an adult student who did less than try his or her ass off. -- Stephen King
He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile. -- Stephen King
If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit. -- Stephen King
All I can do is say again what I've said already: when one isn't sure about ka, it's best to let ka work itself out. If one meddles, one almost always does the wrong thing. -- Stephen King
He was good and bad and I loved both sides of him. God help me, I guess I still do." "You and most kids," Billy said. "You love your folks and hope for the best. What else can you do? -- Stephen King
Joy - damn, but that's a cheerful little word. -- Stephen King
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night ... and what your dreams are like. -- Stephen King
...it was more like bleeding than crying. -- Stephen King
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door. -- Stephen King
To know, I have to write. -- Stephen King
It was quarter past four, that deadly time of morning when it's too late to go back to sleep and still too early to rise and shine. -- Stephen King
Pain is the biggest power of love. That's what Wireman says. -- Stephen King
Pain is the biggest power of love. -- Stephen King
As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer. -- Stephen King
Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves. -- Stephen King
Cancer is the pitbull of diseases, and it had her in its jaws, biting and rending. It would not stop until it had torn her to pieces. -- Stephen King
Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner's in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie on Sons of Anarchy and the entire cast of The Walking Dead. -- Stephen King
Stories take a person away. If they're good ones, that is. -- Stephen King
It tried to fold everything," he said to Jackson, tasting bile in his throat. "But a person isn't a sheet, Mark. What I saw ... what was left of her ... " Like Stanner, the hapless foreman, he could not finish. "They took her out in a basket," he said softly. -- Stephen King
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are. -- Stephen King
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 infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. -- Stephen King
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story. -- Stephen King
As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns. -- Stephen King
Why did you go and do that? I served you faithfully and you broke me. I never harmed you and you smashed me. I was defenseless. -- Stephen King
You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well? -- Stephen King
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 be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts. -- Stephen King
The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true -- Stephen King
I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit. -- Stephen King
The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition. -- Stephen King
Ka speaks and the wind blows! -- Stephen King
We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know. -- Stephen King
But nothing. Accept what's done, Louis, and follow your heart. We did what was right this time . . . at least, I hope to Christ it was right. Another time it could be wrong - wrong as hell. -- Stephen King
We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man. -- Stephen King
Any parting could be forever, and we don't know. -- Stephen King
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead. -- Stephen King
You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. -- Stephen King
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it. -- Stephen King
If Pete Simmons had been twenty, he might have asked a lot of bullshit questions that didn't matter. -- Stephen King
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. -- Stephen King
It's true what they say - sometimes the neuros are crazier than the patients. -- Stephen King
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. -- Stephen King
But she stayed where she was a moment longer, like an animal which has been kept in a cage so long it cannot believe in freedom even when it is offered. -- Stephen King
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. -- Stephen King
Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing. -- Stephen King
First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire. -- Stephen King
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead -- Stephen King
I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times. -- Stephen King
The wind sighed through the trees, and the fallen leaves rattled up the deserted walks and around the hubcaps of parked cars. It was a faint and sorrowful sound, and the boy thought that he might be the only one in Boulder awake enough to hear it. -- Stephen King
They are as they are because they live in the light, the gunslinger thought suddenly. That light of civilization you were taught to adore above all other things. They live in a world which has not moved on. -- Stephen King
This is one of Its places, all right, Ben thought. One of the places like the Morlock holes, where It goes out and comes back in. And It knows we're out here. It's waiting for us to come in. Yuh-yuh-you -- Stephen King
Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead. -- Stephen King
If this expansion is something you want, I invite you to come along with me just a little farther. I have lots to tell you, and I think we can talk better around the corner. In the dark. PART -- Stephen King
Good books are for consideration after, too. -- Stephen King
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't ... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones. -- Stephen King
No. There is no getting away from the word nigger, not now, not in the world we've been given to live in, you and me. Country -- Stephen King
There is no getting away from the word nigger, not now, not in the world we've been given to live in, you and me. -- Stephen King
... I doubt if this is God's doing. I suspect he'll keep right out of it as a consequence. -- Stephen King
When you thought about it, it was sort of a blue-eyed wonder that women could love the best of them, let alone the rest of them. -- Stephen King
It teekles nozzing like Jock Torrance would like to teekle you, madame. -- Stephen King
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back. -- Stephen King
Madness is a kind of mental suicide. -- Stephen King
electroencephalograph, -- Stephen King
Nothing seems to last. But the bullet. The bullet is constant. The bullet is always there. You wait in line, that's all. And when it's your turn to ride the bullet, maybe you ride, maybe you run. Either way it comes to the same thing. Fun is fun. And done is done -- Stephen King
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew. -- Stephen King
I don't want to think too much about art, you see. I don't want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail parties ... What I want to do is clutch my heart and fall down when I see it. (Mr. Nannuzzi to Edgar) -- Stephen King
Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it's no big deal; it's only because you are my love. -- Stephen King
LISTEN CLOSELY, MY FRIENDS," Blaine's voice boomed. "THERE ARE LARGE STOCKPILES OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CANISTERS UNDER THE CITY. I HAVE STARTED A SEQUENCE WHICH WILL CAUSE AN EXPLOSION AND RELEASE THIS GAS. THIS EXPLOSION WILL OCCUR IN TWELVE MINUTES. -- Stephen King
That - we seemed to have decided without saying a word - might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy. -- Stephen King
dealing with drunks and hypes and homeless people who've got one foot in reality and the other in the Twilight Zone, you get used to seeing big changes in people, and usually not changes for the better. You teach yourself to see who's under the new bruises and the fresh coats of dirt. -- Stephen King
Hey, Trash, what did old lady Semple say when you torched her pension check? -- Stephen King
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. -- Stephen King
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. -- Stephen King
That smile was dangerous, she thought - a quicksand smile if ever there was one. Easy to wander in; perhaps more difficult to wander back out. -- Stephen King
In here I'm the guy who can get things for you ... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it. -- Stephen King
There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument. -- Stephen King
Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You ... you fill me up. -- Stephen King
He was a romantic, he knew it, and he guarded the knowledge jealously. -- Stephen King
All I'm saying is that your happiness is in your hands and those of your nearest and dearest. And if you think I'm going to show up two decades or so down the line to collect your soul in my moldy old pocketbook, you'd better think again. The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things. -- Stephen King
I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it. -- Stephen King
Okay," she said. "I'm so glad to see someone, who cares if it's a deaf-mute and a retard. -- Stephen King
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain. -- Stephen King
Thomas Ross appears to have been something of a rarity: a socially conscious young man. -- Stephen King
It's best to be ruthless with the past. -- Stephen King
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do. -- Stephen King
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. -- Stephen King
When you planned rough, you allowed room for improvisation. -- Stephen King
By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family. -- Stephen King
I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way. -- Stephen King
That the hungover eye had a weird ability to find the ugliest things in any given landscape. -- Stephen King
But I don't understand things!" Danny burst out. "I do but I don't! People ... they feel things and I feel them, but I don't know what I'm feeling!" He looked down at his lap wretchedly. "I wish I could read. Sometimes Tony shows me signs and I can hardly read any of them. -- Stephen King
It conjured up an image of fate, not blind at all but equipped with sentient 20/20 vision and intent on grinding helpless mortals between the great millstones of the universe to make some unknown bread. -- Stephen King
Just the sounds of an old building settling, I tell myself . . . but I wonder. -- Stephen King
Terror - what Hunter Thompson calls "fear and loathing" - often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. If that sense of unmaking is sudden and seems personal - if it hits you around the heart - then it lodges in the memory as a complete set. -- Stephen King
Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. -- Stephen King
When I'd come in one day in the late winter and asked him why he was working the grill with a kid's birthday hat on, he'd said Because today I'm fifty-seven, buddy. Which makes me an official Heinz. -- Stephen King
Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles? -- Stephen King
Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies. -- Stephen King
There's no tonic like an old friend. -- Stephen King
yeah. In a movie it would work, yeah. But . . . -- Stephen King
There will be water if God wills it. -- Stephen King
Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags. -- Stephen King
It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream. -- Stephen King
I come to you and you see me whole,' he says. 'You love me all the way around the equator and not just for some story I wrote. When the door closes and the world's outside, we're eye to eye. -- Stephen King
Don't complicate what's simple. -- Stephen King
For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story ... or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school. -- Stephen King
In standard American English, the word with the most gradations of meaning is probably run. The Random House unabridged dictionary offers one hundred and seventy-eight options, beginning with "to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk" and ending with "melted or liquefied." In -- Stephen King
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them. -- Stephen King
The face of the clown in the stormdrain was white, there were funny tufts of red hair on either side of his bald head, and there was a big clown-smile painted over his mouth. If George had been inhabiting a later year, he would have surely thought of Ronald McDonald before Bozo or Clarabell. -- Stephen King
Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. 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 sh*t from a sitting position. -- Stephen King
What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that. -- Stephen King
For a moment she was pissed off, and then the feeling was gone. Jess was just being Jess, trying to protect his image of himself to himself, the way all thinking people do so they can get to sleep at night. -- Stephen King
You ought to sue that son of a whore -- Stephen King
She was eighty-five, and her sleep was as thin as her skin. -- Stephen King
Probably not true, but remember this: someone really did design the Titanic and then label it unsinkable. For -- Stephen King
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. -- Stephen King
Your friend the Turtle... He died a few years ago. The old idiot puked inside his shell and choked to death on a galaxy or two. Very sad, don't you think? But also quite bizarre. -- Stephen King
Getting help from a guy like you is like hiring a pyromaniac to fix the oil-burner. -- Stephen King
Wandering's the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more. -- Stephen King
It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine. -- Stephen King
Question: If you put a psychologist in a room with a man who thinks he's Napoleon and leave them there for a year (or ten or twenty), will you end up with two Skinner men or two guys with their hands in their shirts? Answer: Insufficient data. -- Stephen King
He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. -- Stephen King
It proves little, except that perhaps in America even a pig can aspire to immortality. -- Stephen King
There was a momentary added weight in my stomach, almost like a sickness. There's a name for that sort of sickness. I think it's called falling in love with your best friend's girl. "You've -- Stephen King
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. -- Stephen King
Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!
Come in close where everyone can see!
I got a tale to tell, it isn't gonna cost a dime!
(And if you believe that,
we're gonna get along just fine.) -- Stephen King
Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on our climb to the nirvana of round-the-clock cable news and microwave popcorn. Now we're the Flashlight People. -- Stephen King
Power had been passed in some way that none of them knew but all understood. -- Stephen King
Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous. -- Stephen King
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar. -- Stephen King
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure. -- Stephen King
The proverb says revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented when they made that one up. -- Stephen King
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. -- Stephen King
He didn't like the way things were going.
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn. -- Stephen King
Husbands were all too often the back door by which secrets escaped into the outside world. -- Stephen King
And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail. -- Stephen King
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix. -- Stephen King
Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. -- Stephen King
I started to reply; she hushed me with a wave of her ring-heavy right hand. -- Stephen King
Hey police? I just saw the world's oldest, slowest kid climbing into Pleasantview Cemetery. Looked like he was dying to get in. Yeah, looked like a grave matter to me. Kidding? Oh no, I'm in dead earnest. Maybe you ought to dig into it. -- Stephen King
I would not have taken you on. Jack's hands were clenched tightly in his lap, working against each other, sweating. Officious little prick, officious little prick, officious - -- Stephen King
There were games and activities as well as sermons, because, as he pointed out regularly, most of Jesus's preaching happened outside, and that meant there was more to Christianity than church. -- Stephen King
The thought process can never be complete without articulation. -- Stephen King
The day I start hanging out with that bunch of half-starved mix-n-match sluts will be the day I crawl up my own ass and die! -- Stephen King
Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism. -- Stephen King
Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on. -- Stephen King
The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught -- Stephen King
The hawk does not fear you, boy, and the hawk never will. The hawk is God's gunslinger. -- Stephen King
As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone -- Stephen King
Pain skewered his guts again, and fresh blood squirted out into his hand. It felt like warm jelly. He put his head back -- Stephen King
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. -- Stephen King
I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off. -- Stephen King
His cock swung from side to side like the pendulum of a grandfather clock on speed. -- Stephen King
An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities. -- Stephen King
If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be. -- Stephen King
You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. -- Stephen King
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire. -- Stephen King
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. -- Stephen King
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. -- Stephen King
The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works. -- Stephen King
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. -- Stephen King
The crowd had the plump, righteous, slightly constipated look that seems the exclusive province of businessmen who belong to the GOP. -- Stephen King
The woman who entered had the plump, matronly figure of the Good Gramma in a children's story and the beady eyes of a dick in a department store. -- Stephen King
It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed. -- Stephen King
Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty. -- Stephen King
Her heart was pounding hard, not with excitement but with fear. The head could tell the heart all that was eighteen years over, but in matters of emotion the heart had its own brilliant vocabulary. -- Stephen King
Once my cares were far away,
Yes, once my cares were far away,
Now my love has gone from me
And misery is in my heart to stay. -- Stephen King
Although deer season doesn't start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat. -- Stephen King
The terror ran endlessly on in his mind, making him feel like a rat trapped on an exercise wheel. And when he tried to look ahead to some better, brighter time, he could see only darkness. -- Stephen King
There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue, -- Stephen King
You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst, but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you. -- Stephen King
I haven't been thinking at all, not really, I've just been following the steps. The recipe.
& this is like turning a page in the cookbook & finding the next one blank. -- Stephen King
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant. -- Stephen King
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost. -- Stephen King
I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option. -- Stephen King
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighbourhood can stand for everything. -- Stephen King
When someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot. -- Stephen King
They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only to discover that these things, when verbalized, were only life-sized after all. -- Stephen King
She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a fear so thin and sharp that it found its way deep into her inner heart and vibrated there like a tuning-fork made of clear ice. -- Stephen King
They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark. -- Stephen King
I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day. -- Stephen King
Not all of them who waded into the waters of Lethe found it necessary to take a bath in it, but there were enough - kids who had made dreams their protein. -- Stephen King
Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him. -- Stephen King
A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones. -- Stephen King
He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn't the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point? -- Stephen King
Doc," Jack Torrance said. "Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you." "No," Danny said. "Oh Danny, for God's sake - " "No," Danny said. He took one of his father's bloody hands and kissed it. "It's almost over. -- Stephen King
Holly starts to cry. Jerome hugs her clumsily. He's black and she's white, he's seventeen and she's in her forties, but to Hodges Jerome looks like a father comforting his daughter after she came home from school and said no one invited her to the Spring Dance. -- Stephen King
Pain was a tool, after all. Sometimes it was the best tool. -- Stephen King
A feeling that all his hard decisions, all the pain and loss and spilled blood, had not been for nothing, after all. There was a reason. There was a purpose. There was life and love. -- Stephen King
I'll be back as quick as I can," I said awkwardly.
"Sure."
"Stay cool."
"Don't worry, I'm not going to punch anybody."
I trotted to my car. As I slipped behind the wheel I heard the little girl ask Arnie loudly, "Why is your face all messy like that, mister? -- Stephen King
Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. -- Stephen King
The thing about this job is people go to psychiatrists and pay them $60, $70 an hour to tell them all their screwed-up fantasies, and I write mine down and people pay me. That's just how I roll. -- Stephen King
Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe. -- Stephen King
Harold knew things. It was good that he did, but it was also rather spooky, as if they had a fifth-rate god traveling with them - more or less omniscient, but emotionally unstable and likely to fragment at any time. -- Stephen King
The answer seems to be that we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. With the endless inventiveness of humankind, we grasp the very elements which are so divisive and destructive and try to turn them into tools - to dismantle themselves. -- Stephen King
Payback is a bitch, he thought, and I am that bitch. He -- Stephen King
I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't. -- Stephen King
If ka will say so, let it be so. -- Stephen King
Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day -- Stephen King
And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart. -- Stephen King
It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. -- Stephen King
Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts -- Stephen King
What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release. -- Stephen King
If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. When we get together we build miles of summer cottages and kill each other in the bars on Saturday night. -- Stephen King
I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't. -- Stephen King
So it always has been; so shall it be, life sucks, then you die. -- Stephen King
Love is old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a canibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile, it is always hungry -- Stephen King
There was a big old St. Bernard went rabid downstate a couple of years ago and killed four people. -- Stephen King
Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing. -- Stephen King
Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working. -- Stephen King
Who is going to be the fish in this relationship, and who is going to be the fisherman? -- Stephen King
For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying ... but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal. -- Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. -- Stephen King
He had locked himself safely away in a place beyond pain. -- Stephen King
You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power. -- Stephen King
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. -- Stephen King
He had great faith in Oy. Or maybe it was love. Or maybe those things were the same. -- Stephen King
So I turned on the tube (throwback slang from the Nifty Fifties; televisions no longer have tubes) and channel-surfed for awhile. On -- Stephen King
He gazed up at her seriously from the dust of the dooryard. He knew that however much she might love him, he would always love her more. And as always when he thought these things, the premonition came that ka was not their friend, that it would end badly between them. -- Stephen King
God grant me the SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may, and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears. -- Stephen King
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much. -- Stephen King
Yeah," he said. "When Tina came home, I made her peanut butter crackers. -- Stephen King
On the so-called Kissing Bridge in Bassey Park, amid the declarations of school spirit and undyng love, someone had carved the words I WILL KILL MY MOTHER SOON, and below it someone had added: NOT SOON ENOUGH SHES FULL OF DISEEZE. -- Stephen King
Sand choked the stainless steel gutters of concentric streets below dark skies full of stars like beds of cold jewels. And through it all, a dying wind of change blew, bringing with it the cinnamon smell of late October. -- Stephen King
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 reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was. -- Stephen King
If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century. -- Stephen King
In Derry such forgetting of tragedy and disaster was almost an art, as Bill Denbrough would come to discover in the course of time. -- Stephen King
No. I was going to say his work changed my life, but that's not right. I don't think a teenager has much of a life to change. I just turned eighteen last month. I guess what I mean is his work changed my heart. -- Stephen King
Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes. -- Stephen King
Andy gave me a leatherbound Bible (which I also read, mostly to spite him) -- Stephen King
Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows. -- Stephen King
I was just thinking about how stupid some people can be - you put them in a room with six doors, they'll still walk into the walls. And then have the nerve to bitch about it. -- Stephen King
The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture. -- Stephen King
And when It woke It would call them back, yes, back, because fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried for revenge. -- Stephen King
The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies -- Stephen King
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures. -- Stephen King
No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants -- Stephen King
Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants. -- Stephen King
good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. -- Stephen King
Grammar is ... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. -- Stephen King
We all remember our pleasant dreams more clearly than the scary ones. -- Stephen King
Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. -- Stephen King
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, but Carrie White eats shit. -- Stephen King
When things go wrong, they keep going wrong until there's tears. -- Stephen King
What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key. -- Stephen King
How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys? -- Stephen King
If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast. -- Stephen King
I feel that buzz of happiness, that sense of having found the right words and put them in a line. It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. -- Stephen King
It was a thing as alien to this place and time as true love, and yet as concrete as a Judgment, -- Stephen King
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. -- Stephen King
His head seems to bulge with the story; it is a little scary, the way it needs to get out. He feels that if it cannot escape by way of his racing hand that it will pop his eyes out in its urgency to escape and be concrete. -- Stephen King
Billy Ederle's leaning in the doorway, drinking a Nozzy. -- Stephen King
Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die. -- Stephen King
It's ironic to think that behaviors we consider neurotic are actually holding the word in place - but sooner or later whatever protection they offer decays.And it's so much work.So damn much work. -- Stephen King
UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double. -- Stephen King
Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board. -- Stephen King
After all, you're his number one fan. -- Stephen King
I am your number one fan. -- Stephen King
It was as if the heart had been burned out of her and the sadness which remained was just another ghost, the memory of love haunting the bones of hate. -- Stephen King
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors. -- Stephen King
I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog. -- Stephen King
As he was shaking off, it came to Jake Chambers that the Pere would never do this again, or grin at him and point his finger; or cross himself before eating. They had killed him. Taken his life. Stopped his breath and pulse. Save for dreams, the Pere was now gone from the story. Jake began to cry. -- Stephen King
Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone? -- Stephen King
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you? -- Stephen King
There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important. -- Stephen King
Above the TV was a framed picture of Jesus bringing a boy and girl a puppy. I was in no way surprised. In flyover country, they have a way of getting Christ and Santa all mixed up. -- Stephen King
I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus. -- Stephen King
It was the Trashcan Man," Stan said. "He went hogwild. Jesus Christ only knows what else he's wired up to explode out here. -- Stephen King
A song on the radio can bring back the past with fierce (if mercifully transitory) immediacy: a first kiss, a good time with your buddies, or an unhappy life-passage. -- Stephen King
History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at the top of it, but pretty soon we'll be buried under the doodoo of generations yet to come. -- Stephen King
The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face ... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown? -- Stephen King
When in vice, say it twice. -- Stephen King
She turned and he was coming for her. It was Jack and yet not Jack. His eyes were lit with a vacant, murderous glow; his familiar mouth now wore a quivering, joyless grin. He -- Stephen King
I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC -- Stephen King
I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta! -- Stephen King
Practice is invaluable ... honesty is indispensable ... -- Stephen King
And for fifty minutes every Tuesday and Thursday, between two o'clock and two fifty, I talk. How I do talk. -- Stephen King
Let the old woman have her God, God was as necessary for old women as enemas and Lipton tea bags. -- Stephen King
God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny? -- Stephen King
I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are. -- Stephen King
The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million. Because they multiply! -- Stephen King
The strings that bind you tight to the map of your life, -- Stephen King
In scenes like these, any man could be Iago. -- Stephen King
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. -- Stephen King
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. -- Stephen King
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. -- Stephen King
Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life. -- Stephen King
God the Creator had made man in His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God's light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. The black man wanted - was able - only to unshape. -- Stephen King
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away. -- Stephen King
Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But it's better with you, Constant Reader. Always better with you. -- Stephen King
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. -- Stephen King
Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it. -- Stephen King
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 around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway. -- Stephen King
He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon. -- Stephen King
It is the laugh of a man in the grip of fond recall- the sight of a sunset, the firm feel of a woman's breast through a thin silk shirt (not that Barry has, in Henry's estimation, ever felt such a thing), or the packed warmth of beach sand. -- Stephen King
Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment. -- Stephen King
Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? -- Stephen King
She should be snugly tucked into a bed somewhere in a house with a shrinking mortgage, a teddy bear crooked under one arm, ready to go back to school the next morning and do battle for God, country, and second grade. -- Stephen King
I was really coming back from my Laughing Place. It has a sign over the door that says that. ANNIE'S LAUGHING PLACE, it says. Sometimes I do laugh when I go there. "But mostly I just scream. -- Stephen King
Little changes at first, maybe, but as the Bruce Springsteen song tells us, from small things, baby, big things one day come. They might be good changes, ones -- Stephen King
College was for people who didn't know they were smart. -- Stephen King
Sometimes the world we live in is a truly weird place. -- Stephen King
There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy - anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. -- Stephen King
I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite? -- Stephen King
Incunk warriors and sisters who cut themselves and fathers who cut - (hush Lisey hush) She'd only lie there, leave it at that. -- Stephen King
Lisey didn't care if Darla ate, busted a joint, or took a shit in the begonias. She just wanted to get off the phone. -- Stephen King
For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker; Lisey thinks they will either kill her or drive her insane. -- Stephen King
Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing. -- Stephen King
Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, however ... that guy was onto something. -- Stephen King
I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. -- Stephen King
Babyluv: If you need an anchor to hold your place in the world-not Boo'ya Moon but the one we shared, use the african. You know how to get it back. Kisses-at least a thousand, Scott
P.S. Everything the same. I love you. -- Stephen King
Also, there had been a period of about ten years when Scott had somehow gotten larger than life - to others, and sometimes to himself. (Not to Lisey; she was the one who had to fetch him a fresh roll of toilet paper if he ran out while he was on the john.) -- Stephen King
Yes," Amanda said. "It is. The looneybins are full of people like me. Our dreams harness us, and they whip us with soft whips - oh, lovely whips - and we run and we run, always in the same place . . . because the ship . . . Lisey, the sails never open and the ship never weighs its anchor . . . -- Stephen King
The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey. -- Stephen King
Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful? -- Stephen King
Paul McCartney, the ex-Beatle Brady's mom used to call Old Spaniel Eyes, is getting a medal at the White House. Why is it, Brady sometimes wonders, that people with only a little talent get so much of everything? It's just another proof that the world is crazy. -- Stephen King
The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar ... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through. -- Stephen King
blue shower curtain -- Stephen King
You're my big brother. I knew you'd take care of me. -- Stephen King
Part of her wanted to run. Never mind how flowing water was bound to take her to people eventually, all that was likely just a crock of Little House of the Prairie shit. -- Stephen King
Relationship and connection happen in an indefinable space between people, a space that will never be fully known or understood by us. -- Stephen King
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. -- Stephen King
It wasn't fair and part of him knew it wasn't fair, but never in his life had he felt so helpless, so lost, and so consequently mean. He -- Stephen King
Lovin' you baby, is just like rollin' off a log, But if I can't be your woman, I sure ain't goin' to be your dog. -- Stephen King
I would argue that - fantasies aside - the majority of men are monogamous from the chin up. -- Stephen King
The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket. -- Stephen King
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. -- Stephen King
I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!"
"I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely. -- Stephen King
History repeats itself is another way of saying the past harmonizes. -- Stephen King
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. -- Stephen King
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. -- Stephen King
You can't be careful on a skateboard. -- Stephen King
While I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth. -- Stephen King
London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. -- Stephen King
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. -- Stephen King
In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts. -- Stephen King
Mrs. Bradley's explanation: to make an irrevocable decision. What he learned later, sometimes to his sorrow, is that one comes upon most Rubicons unprepared. -- Stephen King
Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it! -- Stephen King
You take these." A pair of bulky blue mittens dropped into Hallorann's lap. "You'll need em when you go off the road again, I guess. Cold out. You wear em unless you want to spend the rest of your life pickin your nose with a crochetin hook. -- Stephen King
By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody. -- Stephen King
He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? -- Stephen King
If you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know. -- Stephen King
I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona. -- Stephen King
God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy -- Stephen King
As I said, many. They are passing even now. An endless parade of them. They smile, they bow, a child wags his tongue like a dog's tail. Some of them speak. Do you know the poet George Seferis? -- Stephen King
A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a 'what-if' question ... -- Stephen King
But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart? -- Stephen King
A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests. -- Stephen King
He would show them that ... that he ... that he was of managerial timber! (pg. 613) -- Stephen King
God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ... -- Stephen King
Time is not a river, as Einstein theorized - it's a big fucking buffalo herd that runs us down and eventually mashes us into the ground, dead and bleeding, with a hearing aid plugged into one ear and a colostomy bag instead of a .44 clapped on one leg. -- Stephen King
why would Mr. Keene lie, especially about something so serious? -- Stephen King
That fat fairy upstairs would scream all the way to Denver when he saw the water bill. Ain't that right?" "I'd say that's a remarkably astute analysis. -- Stephen King
The soul of a man such as you can never leave the west. -- Stephen King
Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time -- Stephen King
All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt). -- Stephen King
Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!
Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up. -- Stephen King
I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me. -- Stephen King
He checked in under the name Dee Dee Ramone and paid cash for his room. He -- Stephen King
When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving. -- Stephen King
The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got. -- Stephen King
RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision. -- Stephen King
If you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty. -- Stephen King
All I wanted was eighteen holes of golf on Saturday afternoon, and instead I turned into Snow White with hair on my chest. -- Stephen King
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don't think it's in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart. -- Stephen King
I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way. -- Stephen King
Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. -- Stephen King
I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass. -- Stephen King
There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of 'Thy will be done. -- Stephen King
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds - the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it - then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones. -- Stephen King
Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend -- Stephen King
I love gas," he said, and turned on one of the burners. Blue flame popped into life and he adjusted it down to a faint glow with a delicate touch. "I like to be able to see the flame you're cookin with. You see where all the surface burner switches are? -- Stephen King
That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better. -- Stephen King
It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working. -- Stephen King
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. -- Stephen King
Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose. -- Stephen King
He had an instinct for mischief in his head, just as some people have a way with numbers or a clear sense of direction. -- Stephen King
Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best. -- Stephen King
George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth. -- Stephen King
It's not your bullets I fear, Roland. It's your idea of answers that scares me. -- Stephen King
Dad-a-jum, dad-a-jiggers, goddam lobsters bit off your fingers, King said, and actually laughed. -- Stephen King
White America has filled its house with kindling; now it will burn. The -- Stephen King
I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do ... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat? -- Stephen King
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. -- Stephen King
For the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching ... by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain. -- Stephen King
Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came to dig for treasure.
If you want to play, you gotta pay,
You know it's always been that way
We all came digging for treasure. -- Stephen King
For those of us who are not members of a biker gang or the Marine Corps, solidarity means little more than the compassionate impulse that leads us to comfort a bereft friend; for Beezer and his merry band, solidarity is the assurance that someone's always got your back. -- Stephen King
She reflected on how her caller had pronounced husband - almost husbun, as though Scott had been some exotic breakfast treat, now consumed. -- Stephen King
Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again. -- Stephen King
I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids. -- Stephen King
Question: Death, where is thy sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where. -- Stephen King
Next up is the fat family psychologist who makes his guests cry (he calls this "breaking through the wall of denial"), and invites them to leave if any of them dare question his methods. Hodges thinks the fat family psychologist might have learned those methods from old KGB training videos. -- Stephen King
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him. -- Stephen King
where the world ends is where you must begin -- Stephen King
You're cheery, which is important, you're cheeky, which is more important, and you've got a lovely bottom, which is all-important. The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one. -- Stephen King
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. -- Stephen King
As the light swayed above him and the shadows danced and flapped, he began to swing the cane, bringing it down again and again, his arm rising and falling like a machine. -- Stephen King
But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope. -- Stephen King
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. -- Stephen King
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. -- Stephen King
I've been worried about you, she says when they're settled in the kitchen. She has the bright, inquisitive gaze of a crow with its eye on a freshly squashed chipmunk. -- Stephen King
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. -- Stephen King
I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too. -- Stephen King
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm -- Stephen King
Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister. -- Stephen King
I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses. -- Stephen King
Belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home. -- Stephen King
That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. -- Stephen King
I wasn't going to stand out here listening to those quarrelling voices in my head. If I wasn't crazy - and I didn't think I was - listening to those contentious assholes would probably send me there, and by the express. -- Stephen King
He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, All right, we're back together again. What the hell do we do next? -- Stephen King
We had a bad summer here, my friend. Local folks keep it as quiet as they can - even the newspaper doesn't play it up - but there was some nasty work. Murders. Half a dozen at least. Kids. Found one down in the Barrens just recently. Patrick Hockstetter, his name was. All decayed. -- Stephen King
If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you. -- Stephen King
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. -- Stephen King
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. -- Stephen King
We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting. -- Stephen King
When is a Beryl not a Beryl? 'When it's a Claudia,' he said. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
Which is probably why he's never had a gee-eff. You know what that is, right? -- Stephen King
Yeah, okay. Go on now. You was to run over that little hell-bitch of mine on your way out, you'd prolly be doin me a favor. -- Stephen King
It was a table that could seat six, but Ben was the only one there. She had never seen Ben with any of the other boys. It was too bad, because she believed Ben Hanscom had treasures buried inside. He would yield them up to a kind and patient prospector...if one ever came along. -- Stephen King
Things had stretched apart. There was no glue at the center anymore. Somewhere something was tottering, and when it fell, all would end. -- Stephen King
Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes. -- Stephen King
Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely. -- Stephen King
God forbid you should be bereft, Miz Mimi," I'd said. "Tell you what. If you let me pick the play - something not too controversial, I promise - I'll do it." Her frown had disappeared into the brilliant Mimi Corcoran -- Stephen King
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. -- Stephen King
Ka works and the world moves on. Slightman -- Stephen King
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. -- Stephen King
He responded that the unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. Maybe -- Stephen King
They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years. -- Stephen King
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. -- Stephen King
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. -- Stephen King
I don't like people. They fuck me up. -- Stephen King
There's always someone who knows something. -- Stephen King
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. -- Stephen King
My sense of time seems to be melting, like a kid's snowman in a January thaw. -- Stephen King
In a way - I know how crazy this will sound, of course I do, but there is no sense in writing something as long as this if you can't say what feels true to your heart. -- Stephen King
Yes sir boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same. -- Stephen King
...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt -- Stephen King
Through most of what followed there were two of me on the phone, George who was speaking out loud and Jake on the inside, saying all the things George couldn't. Maybe there are always two on each end of the conversation when good love hangs in the balance. -- Stephen King
I sat silently, trying to imagine Pam blown away. I could do it, but the face I saw lighting up in surprise and wonder was a younger face. It had been quite a few years since I'd been able to generate that sort of wind. -- Stephen King
Everybody likes the ice cream man. -- Stephen King
Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed. -- Stephen King
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. -- Stephen King
I love you so much, dear. -- Stephen King
My daddy used to tell me that God loved rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations, and that's why He made so many of them. -- Stephen King
You cant be too careful on a skateboard. -- Stephen King
And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver. -- Stephen King
Who can remember the pangs and sweetness of those early years? We remember our first real love no more clearly than the illusions that caused us to rave during a high fever. -- Stephen King
If I told what I knew about his relationship with Oswald, he might spend the rest of his career freezing his ass off in Fargo. -- Stephen King
Cancer. Rhymes with "dancer" and "you just shit your pants, sir". -- Stephen King
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. -- Stephen King
Hope? Yeah, I'm beginning to remember how to spell that word, too. -- Stephen King
To this, John offered a smile of singular bleakness. He's not the only one. -- Stephen King
Down the hall I could hear the thud of basketballs, the blare of the time-out horn, and the shouts of the crowd as the sports-beasts fought: Lisbon Greyhounds versus Jay Tigers.
Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why? -- Stephen King
The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign.
I jerk off left-handed, he thought, at least that's something. -- Stephen King
Perhaps it wasn't all Freud after all. Perhaps a large part of it had to do with the invention of the electric light, which had killed the shadows in men's minds much more effectively than a stake through a vampire's heart - and less messily, too. -- Stephen King
He'll keep changing tacks, Marcia had said. It's the way he puts people on the defensive. Pretty soon he'll have you hitting out at where you think he's going to be, and he'll get you someplace else. -- Stephen King
It was safer to walk softly, and surer to ask instead of telling. -- Stephen King
Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam. -- Stephen King
The adult was Eric "Rusty" Everett, thirty-seven, a physician's assistant working with Dr. Ron Haskell, whom Rusty often thought of as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Because, Rusty would have explained, he so often remains behind the curtain while I do the work. -- Stephen King
I was no longer just walking around the house of cards; I was living in it. -- Stephen King
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. -- Stephen King
And if it played its cards right they could end up flitting through the Overlook's halls like insubstantial shades in a Shirley Jackson novel, whatever walked in Hill House walked alone, but you wouldn't be alone in the Overlook, oh no, there would be plenty of company here. -- Stephen King
It's always easier to kill someone else's darlings than it is to kill your own. -- Stephen King
I kill with my heart, motherfucker -- Stephen King
Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull -- Stephen King
I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. -- Stephen King
Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep. -- Stephen King
Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet? -- Stephen King
To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude. -- Stephen King
They were close to the end of the beginning . . . -- Stephen King
Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky ... more will want to do the former than the latter. -- Stephen King
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there ... and still on your feet. -- Stephen King
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. -- Stephen King
What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down. -- Stephen King
There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number. -- Stephen King
We're news junkies in my house. -- Stephen King
Low enough to put on a tophat and crawl under a rattlesnake -- Stephen King
Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of the soldier back up here again.
'I like the birdbath better, Daddy,' Stan said.
Mr Uris ruffled his hair. 'Me too, son,' he said. 'More baths and less bullets, that's my motto. -- Stephen King
She pushed the button and like a miracle her head filled with the sound of Jerry Trupiano's voice ... and more importantly, with the sounds of Fenway Park. She was sitting out here in the darkening, drippy woods, lost and alone, but she could hear thirty thousand people. It was a miracle. -- Stephen King
Before it occurred to me that I might actually need an agent, I had generated well over three million dollars' worth of income, a good deal of it for the publisher. -- Stephen King
When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow. -- Stephen King
That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. 3 -- Stephen King
But time changed. That was something only drunks and junkies understood. When you couldn't sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth. -- Stephen King
What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. -- Stephen King
Kids were disappearing and getting murdered back in '58. The Save Our Children Committee is meeting -- Stephen King
There's little in life that's so disheartening as constant cold. -- Stephen King
It was the furthest thing in the world from the rosy-fingered dawn of poetry and old Technicolor movies; this was an anti-dawn, damp and as pale as the cheek of a day-old corpse. -- Stephen King
I scratched the word HELLO in small letters ... And as names go, it's a good one, isn't it? In spite of all the damage that followed, I still think that's the perfect name for a picture drawn by a man who was trying his best not to be sad anymore - who was trying to remember how it felt to be happy. -- Stephen King
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order. -- Stephen King
But even the craziest idea can work its way into your mind if you're lonely and grief-stricken and someone keeps harping on it. It can wriggle in there like a bloodworm, and lay its eggs, and pretty soon your whole brain is squirming with maggots. I -- Stephen King
Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn't impossible to accept. -- Stephen King
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up. -- Stephen King
When some people were in distress, you wanted to enfold them and say there-there as you patted them on the back. With others you wanted to slap them a hard one across the chops and tell them to man up. -- Stephen King
Sure, and maybe a cabal of Victoria's Secret lingerie models would crack the secret of hydrogen fusion. -- Stephen King
A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff. -- Stephen King
His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time. -- Stephen King
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time. -- Stephen King
He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers. -- Stephen King
As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), "You can never be too thin or too rich." And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor. -- Stephen King
Well, that's the thing about dressing up in an outfit, isn't it?" His smile was gone. Now he looked pale and grim. Like everyone else in Derry, in other words. "When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside." 4 -- Stephen King
A boy with bad thoughts needs to be visiting a haunted house like he needs arsenic in his mouthwash. -- Stephen King
I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies. -- Stephen King
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. -- Stephen King
Norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found homer sprawled in a ditch out by homeland cemetary, beaten to death with his own artificial arm. -- Stephen King
Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that. -- Stephen King
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like
diamonds, was forever. -- Stephen King
Sometimes it's just easier to go along. -- Stephen King
The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King! -- Stephen King
How to Draw a Picture (XII)
Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life. -- Stephen King
Really not much sense of humor, though. Well, there were worse failings. Grabbing a girl's bosom when she wasn't expecting it might be one of them. -- Stephen King
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. -- Stephen King
One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection. -- Stephen King
You're a Frankenstein!"
"Don't confuse the monster with the creator. -- Stephen King
I'll bring you a pine tree float, if you want. That's a glass of water with a toothpick in it. -- Stephen King
Reality is a thin skim of ice over a deep lake of dark water. -- Stephen King
When all the normal patterns and routines of a person's life fell apart - and with such shocking suddenness - you had to find something you could hold onto, something that was both sane and predictable. -- Stephen King
I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe. -- Stephen King
I don't mind. I'm a kitchen eater from a long line of kitchen eaters." The -- Stephen King
The Werewolf crossed the rutted path just as Bill pedaled into the middle of Neibolt Street. Blood splattered its faded jeans, and looking back over his shoulder, filled with a kind of dreadful, unbreakable fascination that was akin to hypnosis, Richie saw that the seams -- Stephen King
Good fiction always begins with story and progresses to theme; it almost never begins with theme and progresses to story. -- Stephen King
I was scared," she said, and then uttered a shaky little laugh. "I guess you don't know what scared is until one of your kids screams in the dark." "Ugh, -- Stephen King
Sometimes I think life is a sad, bad business, Doc I really do. -- Stephen King
When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin. -- Stephen King
You're a goddam funny kid, Clivey," he said. "I got sixteen grandchildren, and there's only two of em that I think is gonna amount to duckshit, and you ain't one of em - although you're on the runner-up list - but you're the only one that can make me laugh until my balls ache. -- Stephen King
Everybody knows that, for such an unforgiving thing, time is uniquely malleable. -- Stephen King
What an amazing day this has been, he thought. What a perfectly amazing day ... and it's not even one in the afternoon yet. -- Stephen King
Why, then you go on to Death Row at state prison and just
enjoy all that good food until it's time to ride the lightning. It won't be
long. -- Stephen King
For every thing you find that's of comfort...there are two with the power to hurt. -- Stephen King
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood. -- Stephen King
Her hands were folded just below her breasts, as if in prayer. -- Stephen King
Put an asshole on a plane in Boston an asshole gets off in Seattle -- Stephen King
Nick: My second point is the same one Larry made about the Judge. The Adversary is not going to expect us to send a retarded person as a spy. -- Stephen King
Christ almighty, Noonan, quit it, I told myself. She's three years old and you've already got her with three kids of her own, two with ringworm and one retarded. -- Stephen King
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones. -- Stephen King
There are quests and roads that lead ever onward, and all of them end in the same place - upon the killing ground. -- Stephen King
It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything. -- Stephen King
Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other. -- Stephen King
Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through -- Stephen King
These models - these mannequins - are perfectly professional, and he hates all professionalism. He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit. He -- Stephen King
The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing. -- Stephen King
Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. -- Stephen King
He pushed the thought into a mental closet. It was a thing he was good at. There was all sorts of stuff in that closet. -- Stephen King
You've been through my stuff. I bent over and let one of you stick the world's longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought I'd see that guy's fingernail sticking out of my cock. -- Stephen King
God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's hard to hear a small voice clearly if you're shitass drunk most of the time. -- Stephen King
Perhaps so, but you're all out of running room. Embrace it. Swallow it. Take steam or die. -- Stephen King
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true. -- Stephen King
I think the Gulf of Mexico has something else going for it. Just looking into that mild flat sunlit calm is healing. -- Stephen King
The teenage lead singer counted off, and the band launched into a hot version of "Ooh, My Head," the old Ritchie Valens song - and not really so old in the summer of '61, although Valens had been dead for almost two years. -- Stephen King
...the years pass and time has weight... -- Stephen King
Elementary, my dear fucksticks. Bullshit, -- Stephen King
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write. -- Stephen King
I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line. -- Stephen King
Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it's March that's the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit. -- Stephen King
I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come. -- Stephen King
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. -- Stephen King
Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better - more nostalgic - as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a smell?" "Nope, -- Stephen King
I didn't bother tellin her no made-up story, because she always sees through em and has since I was knee-high to a collie. -- Stephen King
Say, darling, I'm giving you this wonderful present, it's a machine that eats at one end and shits out the other, it's going to run for fifteen years, give or take, merry fucking Christmas. -- Stephen King
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 other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet. -- Stephen King
Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel. -- Stephen King
Pennywise: I'll kill you all! Ha-ha! I'll drive you crazy and then I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you ever had! I am your worst dream come true! I'm everything you ever were afraid of! -- Stephen King
all gods is one when it comes to thanks, so I've heard, and 'tis a good enough saying. -- Stephen King
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed. -- Stephen King
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. -- Stephen King
Hi, Lloyd," he said. "A little slow tonight, isn't it?" Lloyd -- Stephen King
Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying. -- Stephen King
There was some arking and barking at dinner... -- Stephen King
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. -- Stephen King
Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She -- Stephen King
Terror washed through him, and then was replaced by a sense of cosmic absurdity. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
He might scream, but I didn't think he would hum. Four -- Stephen King
When you were down, some guys just seemed to feel an urge to walk up your back and plant a foot on your neck instead of helping you to stand. -- Stephen King
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? -- Stephen King
Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never really heals. -- Stephen King
Susannah realized, with dawning bitterness, that she could now give the perfect definition of a ka-mai: one who has been given hope but no choices. Like giving a motorcycle to a blindman, she thought. Richard -- Stephen King
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do. -- Stephen King
He reached out with one bird-claw hand. He closed it around my wrist and I could feel the hot cancer that was loose and raving through his body, eating anything and everything left that was still good to eat. -- Stephen King
A real drunk is only int'rested in two things: puttin paid to the jug in the hand, and huntin for the one still in the bush. -- Stephen King
It sounded like the wheel on Wheel of Fortune, do you want to spin or do you want to solve the puzzle? Remember that if you try to solve the puzzle and fail, you will be put out into the snow beside the Connecticut Turnpike and the wolves will eat you. -- Stephen King
If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds
can actually be out of their minds while caught in that throe
why shouldn't writers be able to go bonkers and still stay sane? -- Stephen King
Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class. -- Stephen King
And when the end comes, and when it is as horrible as good men always knew it would be, there is only one thing to say as all those good men approach the Throne of Judgment: I was misled. -- Stephen King
You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show. -- Stephen King
He dialed the hotel he had last seen through the horn-rimmed spectacles of his childhood. Dialing that number, 1-207-941-8282, was fatally easy. He held the telephone to his ear, -- Stephen King
The crowd could not know that they were cheering but somehow they did, somehow they understood that the circle between death-worship and death-wish had been completed for another year and the crowd went completely loopy, convulsing itself in greater and greater paroxysms. -- Stephen King
That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump. -- Stephen King
but when you were down, some guys just seemed to feel an urge to walk up your back and plant a foot on your neck instead of helping you to stand. It was lousy, but so much of human nature was. -- Stephen King
Because - dig it - when it comes to death, what can you do but laugh? -- Stephen King
Nothing screws with memory like repetition. -- Stephen King
And to him everything would look slow and red, as if the whole world had been tie-dyed in a vat of gore. -- Stephen King
Don't speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville. -- Stephen King
The gadget had come with The New Oxford American Dictionary preloaded. You only had to begin typing your word and the Kindle found it for you. It was, he thought, TiVo for bookworms. -- Stephen King
Having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue. Am I crazy, then? -- Stephen King
Good days and long nights to ya, sai. -- Stephen King
Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match. -- Stephen King
Never let it be said I failed to take advantage of a lady in distress. -- Stephen King
It didn't scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story. -- Stephen King
As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens. -- Stephen King
At first Nick was able to divide this fantasy from reality, but as time passed, he became more sure that the fantasy was reality. -- Stephen King
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. -- Stephen King
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion? -- Stephen King
Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap. -- Stephen King
The van's driver hung halfway out of the cab window, head down, arms dangling. There was a fan of dried blood and puke sprayed out below him on the door. -- Stephen King
Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual -- Stephen King
Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and hairless animals at play. -- Stephen King
Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-"
"We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father says assume makes an ass out of you and me. Get it, u and-"
"I get it," Clay said. -- Stephen King
He will hear this voice in uneasy dreams for the rest of his life, never quite remembering what he has dreamed, only knowing that the dreams leave him feeling ill somehow - walking restlessly, straightening pictures in loveless rooms, listening to the call to muzzein in alien town squares. -- Stephen King
This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course. -- Stephen King
As for the end of the universe ... I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare? -- Stephen King
Things with the power to scare the living shit out of you on a thundery midnight in most cases seem only interesting in the bright light of a summer morning. -- Stephen King
A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way. -- Stephen King
Without story books is like a person with no soul. -- Stephen King
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. -- Stephen King
Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just ... maybe they just stiffen up. -- Stephen King
Flattery," Wendy told him, "is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn't or when he says I don't need to take off five pounds." "Oh. Is it lying for fun? -- Stephen King
It was a sense that reality was thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. But -- Stephen King
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. -- Stephen King
And for almost four hours they sat at the opposite ends of the couch, the portable phonograph on the coffee table before them, their faces lit with silent and sorrowful fascination, listening as the music of a dead world filled the summer night. -- Stephen King
Thud, thud, thud, riderless black horse with red eyes coming down the halls of his mind, ironshod hooves digging up soft gray clods of brain tissue, leaving hoofprints to fill up with mystic crescents of blood. -- Stephen King
The snow that began at midafternoon had faded the sign's virulent yellow to a kinder pastel shade as the light ran out of the January dusk. -- Stephen King
There was power in that music, a power which seemed to most rightfully belong to all the skinny kids, fat kids, ugly kids, shy kids - the world's losers, in short. -- Stephen King
She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband. -- Stephen King
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible. -- Stephen King
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. -- Stephen King
The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance. -- Stephen King
When he gets back to the house, every damn snack in the cupboards and the fridge is going into the trash. Then he thinks, Make it the garbage disposal. Too easy to weaken and fish stuff out of the trash. -- Stephen King
To claim that America's "culture of violence" is responsible for school shootings is tantamount to cigarette company executives declaring that environmental pollution is the chief cause of lung cancer. -- Stephen King
Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy. -- Stephen King
Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks. -- Stephen King
If it's all true, then we're in the citadel of unbelief, where nightmares are dispatched with Lysol and scalpels and chemotherapy rather than with stakes and Bibles and wild mountain thyme. -- Stephen King
We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts. -- Stephen King
Do you know about the Turtle?" She said turtle in a way that made it sound like a proper noun. I thought of saying I know about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and didn't. It was decades too early for Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo. So I just shook my head. She -- Stephen King
The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die. -- Stephen King
Are you sure you wouldn't like to run? A game of tag, perhaps? All we have is time, you know. An eternity of time. Or shall we end it? Might as well. After all, we're missing the party. -- Stephen King
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. -- Stephen King
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. - -- Stephen King
Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. -- Stephen King
She looked at Danny. His face was all eyes. His mouth was pressed into a frightened, bloodless slit. -- Stephen King
It was like putting ten different savory things in the cold-pantry all at once, so each took on a bit of the others' flavors; the mushrooms had a taste of ham and the ham of mushrooms; the venison had the slightest wild taste of partridge and the partridge had the tiniest hint of cucumbers. Later -- Stephen King
about a bird, wasn't there, Mike? -- Stephen King
Indeed he did, and we never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. Wouldn't you say so, Mr. Streeter? -- Stephen King
In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It's silence that is a marriage's best friend. -- Stephen King
Anger made men easy. -- Stephen King
...the atmosphere after a March storm is always dour and pessimistic; we get them every year (and two or three in April for good measure, if we're not lucky), but we never seem to expect them. Every time we get clouted we take it personally. -- Stephen King
Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get. -- Stephen King
Save your hate for those who deserve it more. -- Stephen King
Nice talk," he hears Lennie say dimly from the insane universe where God has clearly died and lies stinking on the floor of a pillaged heaven. -- Stephen King
If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? -- Stephen King
We stood at the turning point ... Half-measures availed us nothing. -- Stephen King
A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures ... -- Stephen King
The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough. -- Stephen King
jokes about arks. The -- Stephen King
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. -- Stephen King
Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same. -- Stephen King
got to be regular if you want to be happy, -- Stephen King
I know you," she said. "You're Stephen King. You write those scary stories. That's all right, some people like them, but not me. I like uplifting stories, like that Shawshank Redemption." "I wrote that too," I said. "No you didn't," she said, and went on her way. The -- Stephen King
Say whatever you want about Stoke Jones, you could depend on him to put a little f/u into your day. -- Stephen King
Hobbiton, a low but somehow cozy tunnel with rounded earthen sides -- Stephen King
Yeah, the world must be going to a camp-meeting hell when something like that can happen, ' I agreed. 'But that don't matter now. All that matters now is, do we have an understanding here or do you want to see if you can learn how to breathe through your forehead? -- Stephen King
They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt. -- Stephen King
He and Sully dared each other to go on the Wild Mouse and finally went together, howling deliriously as their car plunged into each dip, simultaneously sure that they were going to live forever and die immediately. -- Stephen King
Roland opened his eyes and said, Goodbye, Jake. I love you, dear. -- Stephen King
Nothing had worked out the way it should have. All of the hopes had turned out to be phony, as false as those Audioanimatronic animals at Disney World, just a bunch of clockwork, a cheat, a false dawn, a false pregnancy, a - -- Stephen King
Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so if you know what's good for ya, get out of my way - -- Stephen King
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer. -- Stephen King
There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids. -- Stephen King
It starts here. From its field of roses, the Dark Tower cries out in its beast's voice. Time is a face on the water. -- Stephen King
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings. -- Stephen King
Kill your darlings. -- Stephen King
Violently back and forth? The truth was she couldn't remember a time ... but she was dismally afraid she would before much longer. He rented the ground-floor apartment before me. We saw each other, me coming and him going, over a space of a few days. He moved down to Roward Lane. Do you know it? -- Stephen King
She had the top down and I could smell everything in those woods, and you know what an old fine smell that is, like something which has been mostly left alone and is not much troubled.
("Mrs. Todd's Shortcut") -- Stephen King
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"
He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that? -- Stephen King
Before he said I was too old for stories." "A person's never too old for stories, Bill. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them." "Do you say so?" "I do. -- Stephen King
But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty years from now. -- Stephen King
Now stop fucking around and look at the fishies. You know you want to. -- Stephen King
Friends come and go like waiters in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? [...] Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair, but it happens -- Stephen King
That thing about don't look up here, you're pissing on your shoes, for
instance, was that humor? Or a growl of rage?
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away. -- Stephen King
Have I gotten everything right? I doubt it. Not even the great Daniel Defoe did that; in Robinson Crusoe, our hero strips naked, swims out to the ship he has recently escaped....and then fills up his pockets with items he will need to stay alive on his desert island. -- Stephen King
They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows. -- Stephen King
He spoke in the hoarse, cadenced tones of a lifelong teller of tales - one of those divine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs string with drops of dew. -- Stephen King
International that had been parked nose-out in the alley beside the five-and-dime. -- Stephen King
It's the people who aren't scared who die young. -- Stephen King
Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer. -- Stephen King
His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull. -- Stephen King
She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do. -- Stephen King
That look is all the rage among dead women this summer, I thought. -- Stephen King
Good writing - good stories - are the imagination's firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable. -- Stephen King
I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. -- Stephen King
If you love me, then love me. -- Stephen King
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon. -- Stephen King
I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill? -- Stephen King
Come back anytime, son. I'm thinking about lowering the price on the large." "To a dime?" He grinned. Like his son's, it was easy and open. "Now you're cooking with gas. -- Stephen King
Even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal. -- Stephen King
Well . . . he don't bite and he don't bide, so fuck him. -- Stephen King
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down. -- Stephen King
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. -- Stephen King
Surprised, Ralph looked down at the card again. There was a second number there, marked J.W. "Day or night," Wyzer said. "Really. You won't disturb my wife; we've been divorced since 1983. -- Stephen King
But here's something I bet you already know, deep down. It's your brain that's hurting, and blaming it on your leg. Brains are crafty that way. -- Stephen King
If ka is a train - and it is, a vast, hurtling mono, maybe sane, maybe not - then this nasty little lycanthrope is its most vulnerable hostage, not tied to the tracks like little Nell but strapped to the thing's very headlight. -- Stephen King
It's not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it's not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it's not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss. -- Stephen King
Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought. -- Stephen King
Everything seemed to stand out with a special dearness, and although I never could have said that out loud I didn't think it mattered - maybe that sense of dearness was something I wanted just for myself. -- Stephen King
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. -- Stephen King
On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be. -- Stephen King
Lester Coggins was a lifelong bachelor who as an adolescent had suffered nightmares of masturbating and looking up to see Mary Magdalene standing in his bedroom doorway. -- Stephen King
This is what romance gets you
a noose around your neck and a crazy woman with two guns somewhere behind you. -- Stephen King
This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change. -- Stephen King
While, as we did before, with a broken circle. I think It will kill us, one by one by one, and probably in some extremely horrible ways. As children we made a complete circle in some way I don't understand even now. I think that, if we agree to -- Stephen King
The stench in the air grew steadily stronger, and the dark about us seemed to press like wool, as if jealous of the light which had temporarily deposed it after so many years of undisputed dominion. -- Stephen King
The stupidity of one's own colleagues makes life simpler. -- Stephen King
You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy. -- Stephen King
Men were not so much gifted with penises as cursed with them. -- Stephen King
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed. -- Stephen King
Sometimes "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't!" I -- Stephen King
I felt an absurd urge to ask, Can you sell me a nice summer straw hat, or should I just go fuck myself? -- Stephen King
I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives. -- Stephen King
Something went wrong a few years ago and I knew it was a bad thing but I didn't know it was bad for me. I thought it just happened and then I was going to get over it. But things keep falling down inside me. I'm sick with it. I keep doing things. -- Stephen King
Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not. -- Stephen King
Nobody likes a clown at midnight -- Stephen King
More than anything else I wanted to get inside my readers' defenses, wanted to rip them and ravish them and change them forever with nothing but story. And I felt I could do those things. I felt I had been made to do those things. -- Stephen King
Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself. -- Stephen King
It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, 'what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for? -- Stephen King
I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin, that's all. -- Stephen King
Off to California in that tired old VW with the disintegrating fuel pump like a family of dustbowl Okies? -- Stephen King
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. -- Stephen King
I used to laugh at that old wheeze about a man wanting his son to be better than he was, but as I get older it seems less funny and more true. -- Stephen King
I want to go to war," Eddie Dean said calmly.
"You don't know what you're talking about," Roland said, "but you're going to find out."
Eddie nodded. They went to their war. -- Stephen King
Sometimes [ ... ] real love is silent as well as blind. -- Stephen King
The screen blanked, then produced a book cover. The jacket image - in black-and-white - showed barking dogs surrounding a scarecrow. In the background, shoulders slumped in a posture of weariness or defeat (or both), was a hunter with a gun. The eponymous Cortland, probably. -- Stephen King
He was only the second or third in his sprawling family (their religion, Skip once said, was Irish Alcoholic) to ever go to college. Clan -- Stephen King
I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy. -- Stephen King
He had never in his life felt so undecided about so many things, and he wanted to cry. -- Stephen King
...he never forgot that sweet, violent feeling of having touched some great adventure, of having looked for a moment at some beautiful white light that was, in fact, every color of the rainbow. -- Stephen King
Abruptly he started the car and put it in gear and drove away, trying not to look back. And of course he did, and of course the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them. -- Stephen King
He was for the open lands and long rides. That this seemed a good fate was something he would marvel over later, in his solitude. -- Stephen King
The other piece of advice I want to give you before moving on to the next level of the toolbox is this: The adverb is not your friend. -- Stephen King
Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world
-- Stephen King
He had scorned her, and didn't they say that hell hath no fury
? A scorned woman might well traffic with the devil ... or his henchman. -- Stephen King
Time and ka and trains. I'm thinking about them and many other things.
(Lady of Shadows: Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three) -- Stephen King
I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively. -- Stephen King
The rest of 2012's big winners are romances, all but one (The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks) of the sexed-up genre now known as mommy-porn. -- Stephen King
Why do you keep looking back there?" the guy in charge had asked.
"From time to time I need an antidote," Eddie said.
"From what?"
"Your face. -- Stephen King
Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death. -- Stephen King
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that. -- Stephen King
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's. -- Stephen King
Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise. -- Stephen King
And then I saw that I had had company in the night, as I slept. The tracks, drying to faint muddy impressions, led from the front door of the library (which I locked; I always lock it) to the desk where I slept. There were no tracks leading away. -- Stephen King
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go ... well, anywhere at all. -- Stephen King
Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty. -- Stephen King
Don't you ever let me hear you call them the vics, Sledge told him. That shit's strictly for assholes and burnouts. Remember their names. Call them by their names. The -- Stephen King
The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic. -- Stephen King
Once upon a bye, before your grandfather's grandfather was born, on the edge of an unexplored wilderness called the Endless Forest, there lived a boy named Tim -- Stephen King
Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter. -- Stephen King
I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It's leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you're rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton's gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card. -- Stephen King
You should never trust a person who prays in public. -- Stephen King
A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided to elect this fool for two years instead. -- Stephen King
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. -- Stephen King
I feel like a man standing at the mouth of an old mine-shaft that is full of cave-ins waiting to happen, standing there and saying goodbye to the daylight. -- Stephen King
Here was enough transcendentalism to drive even a cave-dwelling Tibetan holy man insane. Jack Sawyer was everywhere; Jack Sawyer was everything. -- Stephen King
John Coffey was torn open by what he had done ... but he would live. The girls would not. They had been torn open in a more fundamental way. -- Stephen King
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself. -- Stephen King
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation. -- Stephen King
Shut up, Willy. Mister, you gonna buy anything? Pa says we can't shut down for the day until we get thirty dollars' worth of custom." "I'll buy a pumpkin. If you can give me some decent directions." She gave a theatrical sigh. "One pumpkin. A buck-fifty. Big whoop. -- Stephen King
It never really felt like work to me, although I called it that; it felt like some weird mental trampoline I bounced on. Those were the springs that took away all the weight of the world for awhile. -- Stephen King
It's perfectly okay to paraphrase Nietzche: if you keep your focus, eventually your focus will keep you. Sometimes without parole. -- Stephen King
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it? -- Stephen King
Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of. -- Stephen King
Do you know what made Poe great? And Machen and Lovecraft? A direct pipeline to the old subconscious. To the fears and twisted needs that swim around down there like phosphorescent fish. -- Stephen King
Chains (other than the ones we all learned to make out of strips of colored paper in kindergarten I suppose) are strong. We use them to pull engine blocks out of trucks and to bind the arms and legs of dangerous prisoners. -- Stephen King
So let us go then, you and I, while the evening spreads out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table. -- Stephen King
But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall. -- Stephen King
Ride it, Big Bill!" Richie screamed, so scared he was nearly creaming his jeans but laughing wildly all the same. "Stand on this baby! -- Stephen King
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged. -- Stephen King
Could he hold up a hand, tell them he had spent a thousand years learning this trick and others, tell them of the guns and the blood that had blessed them? Not with his mouth. But his hands could speak their own tale. -- Stephen King
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. That's from the original Godfather, -- Stephen King
The first rule of her
confrontational life-style was Always get the last word. The second
was Always make the first move. Making this first move was what she
thought of as Taking Care of Things, and she meant to take care of
Nettle in a hurry. -- Stephen King
There didn't seem to be any difference at all between LOSING YOUR MARBLES and HAVING A BREAKDOWN, and whether you called it a BUGHOUSE or a SANNY-TARIUM, there were still bars on the windows and they wouldn't let you out if you wanted to go. -- Stephen King
What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic. -- Stephen King
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic. -- Stephen King
This tune is called "What She Don't Know Won't Hurt Her. " But it hurts somewhere. In the spaces between people, maybe. -- Stephen King
Accidental shooting death, they argue, are just part of the price we pay for freedom ... and besides, that sort of thing would never happen to me; I'm too cool-headed. -- Stephen King
The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession. -- Stephen King
In 1961 you usually didn't hear the word shit from teachers, even if they had a mouthful. But -- Stephen King
In the end you always crashed against the unspoken barricades of their love, like the walls of a padded cell. The truth of their love rendered further meaningful discussion impossible and made what had gone before empty of meaning. -- Stephen King
Words had a way of creating their own imperatives. -- Stephen King
Don't go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember. -- Stephen King
Annie Wilkes was the perfect audience, a woman who loved stories without having the slightest interest in the mechanics of making them. She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader. -- Stephen King
It occurred to him that spite was a kind of methadone for lovers. Was it better to go cold turkey? Perhaps not. -- Stephen King
THE BEAM, OF COURSE,' Blaine replied. 'ALL THINGS SERVE IT, YOU KNOW. -- Stephen King
The reason is best summed up by Susannah's thought as she prepares to tell Blaine the first riddle of their contest: It is hard to begin. There's nothing in these pages that I agree with more. -- Stephen King
Lisbon Taxi,' a woman said, 'where the mileage is always smileage. How may we help you today? -- Stephen King
When it comes to memory, we all stack the deck. -- Stephen King
When it comes to the past, we all stack the deck. -- Stephen King
When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself. -- Stephen King
It was like that moment when the roller coaster has reached the top of its first mountain, hesitates a moment . . . tilts . . . plunges . . . and you fall with a sudden blast of hot summer air in your face and a pressure against your chest and your stomach floating somewhere behind you. In -- Stephen King
He who hesitates is usually fucked! -- Stephen King
And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth. -- Stephen King
A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God. -- Stephen King
She had a bottle of water in her pack - a big one with a squeeze-top - but suddenly all Trisha wanted in the world was to prime the pump in the little hut and get a drink, cold and fresh, from its rusty lip. She would drink and pretend she was Bilbo Baggins, on his way to the Misty Mountains. -- Stephen King
Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance of being earnest. -- Stephen King
You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served. -- Stephen King
It's also important to remember it's not about the setting, anyway - it's about the story, and it's always about the story. -- Stephen King
Oh my fadder and I are one, " she said, "just me, just him, and dear, if you are wise you will run, run back to where you came from, run quickly, because to stay will mean worse than your death. No one who dies in Derry really dies. You knew that before; believe it now. -- Stephen King
My heart was full of hate and love and regret-all those things that have haunted me ever since. -- Stephen King
Staring into thin air at those
things only cats can see (Doctro Sleep) -- Stephen King
Come on and take your medicine! -- Stephen King
She took him by the arm and pulled him down and put her lips on his. When she inhaled, she took in the breath of a thousand years and ten thousand miles. And yes, she tasted death. But -- Stephen King
It's his voice that I remember, certainly: my father's voice, low and slow, how he would chuckle sometimes or laugh outright. -- Stephen King
Club em if they want a club, " Belch said, and chuckled. A Belch Huggins chuckle was a low, troll-like sound. "Club em if they want a club. That's good. That's pretty much okey-dokey. " She became -- Stephen King
Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka. -- Stephen King
Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting. -- Stephen King
Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that's really the horror of it, wouldn't you say? Yes. The exact horror of it. -- Stephen King
Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create - God help you if you do, God help you if you can - don't you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts. -- Stephen King
His face was an exploding zit-factory below a Brylcreem-loaded Bobby Rydell duck's ass. -- Stephen King
A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. -- Stephen King
Hearts don't really break. If only they could. -- Stephen King
But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn't man or God. It's something ... in the brain. -- Stephen King
They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead. -- Stephen King
The two of them walked toward the road and the stone marker. Behind them, other cars were pulling out. A woman began screaming abruptly. Unconsciously, Garraty and McVries drew closer together. Neither of them looked back. Ahead of them was the road, wide and black. -- Stephen King
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God. -- Stephen King
He was like something out of a fairytale or a myth, the last of his breed in a world that was writing the last page of its book. -- Stephen King
I love my life and my wife and kids, but I've always been somewhat quasi-suicidal, constantly wanting to push things past the edge. -- Stephen King
There is no bad time for good news. -- Stephen King
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. -- Stephen King
I didn't want to write a book, even a short one like this, that would leave me feeling like either a literary gasbag or a transcendental asshole. -- Stephen King
The Black Man grinned at her with his jackal mouth, and his scarlet eyes knew all the secrets of woman-blood. -- Stephen King
When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost. -- Stephen King
When you're 21, life is a road map. It's only when you get to be 25 or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're 40 are you entirely sure. By the time you're 60, take it from me, you're fucking lost. -- Stephen King
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. -- Stephen King
Chris: I'm never gonna get out of this town am I, Gordie?
Gordie: You can do anything you want, man.
Chris: Yeah, sure. Give me some skin.
Gordie: I'll see ya.
Chris: Not if I see you first. -- Stephen King
He could have died for such a smile . . . and thought he would, if circumstances demanded. -- Stephen King
He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn't even done it alone. There were currently ninety-five other fools in this parade. -- Stephen King
A life without love is like a tree without fruit. -- Stephen King
Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. -- Stephen King
She was not a believer in love at first sight, although she did believe that instant lust (going under the more innocent name of infatuation) occurred frequently. -- Stephen King
Hello?" he asked as he went ... just so that anyone intent on killing him would know exactly where to look. -- Stephen King
Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one! -- Stephen King
It was a moment he remembered for years after, as though a special small slice had been cut from the cake of time. If nothing fires between two people, such an instant simply falls back into the general wrack of memory. -- Stephen King
If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all? -- Stephen King
How infinite was love, twining in and out of hope and memory like a braid with three strong strands, so much the Bright Tower of every human's life and soul. -- Stephen King
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land. -- Stephen King
Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe. -- Stephen King
You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing. -- Stephen King
How we make large circles in earth for ourselves ... Around we go, back to the start and the start is there again: resumption, which was ever the curse of daylight.
How long before we see daylight again? -- Stephen King
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes. -- Stephen King
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. -- Stephen King
The fox who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger. -- Stephen King
She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine. -- Stephen King
Understanding is vastly overrated, but nobody ever gets enough safety. -- Stephen King
He's not my biggest fan right now. He's probably even deleted me from his Facebook page. -- Stephen King
Being ninety-five percent sure isn't a hundred. -- Stephen King
Sane men will often take a hint," Mr. Kenopensky said. "Crazy men rarely do. -- Stephen King
The train was parked fifty feet up, by a toy station that mimicked the one across the street. Hanging from its eaves was a sign which read TOPEKA. The train was Charlie the Choo-Choo, cowcatcher and all; a 402 Big Boy Steam Locomotive. -- Stephen King
When he raised his hand to wipe his chin, the card clutched in it had no longer been yellow. This time it was a dirty but still bright orange. -- Stephen King
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do. -- Stephen King
People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world. -- Stephen King
[E]ighty percent of success is just showing up. -- Stephen King
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. -- Stephen King
I'd read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world's strangest trip, and as I climbed into bed, a line from the novel crossed my mind: 'He had lost the habit of romance. -- Stephen King
Look out, world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so -- Stephen King
Keeping body and soul together is an annoying business, as I suppose you know. -- Stephen King
But all it is, is needing someone warm, needing to be warm. Needing to love. Is that so bad? -- Stephen King
Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe. -- Stephen King
She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive. -- Stephen King
Saint Paul was all too right about that dark glass. We look through it all our days and see nothing but our own reflections. -- Stephen King
We're like old acquaintances on trains going in different directions. -- Stephen King
Poison ivy, because who needed a case of that on your pecker). We're all here in Derry. No camp, no relatives, no vacations, no AWAY. All right here. Present and accounted for. There's -- Stephen King
Baseball is also a game of balance. -- Stephen King
A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light. -- Stephen King
Lecture all you want, you picked me up when I was down and I guess I owe you that, but don't tell me about pain. Nobody knows unless they're on the inside. -- Stephen King
What heart I have is yours. -- Stephen King
Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win. -- Stephen King
You'll begin learning it today. As you learn to talk the Talk, you'll learn to walk the walk. I'm not going to explain that, because it can't be explained; it can only be learned. -- Stephen King
Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real. -- Stephen King
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. -- Stephen King
You need to get in the Baptist way of churching, son. Ours welcomes newcomers. You can take this place, and maybe some Sunday you can come with me n my wife.'
'Maybe so,' I agreed, reminding myself to be in a coma that Sunday. Possibly dead. -- Stephen King
You see a guy, is what you see. Only God got distracted before he could slap a dick on me and went on to the next in line. -- Stephen King
I'm going to bash your brains in. Bash them right to fuck in. He struggled up another riser. Panic -- Stephen King
Was it pretty? Your country ... your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light. -- Stephen King
You must never draw, he'd said, until you know hoe many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die. -- Stephen King
Ghostly, in his mind, Ben heard the librarian reading to the little ones: Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge? The children lean forward, all the old fascination glistening in their eyes: will the monster be bested ... or will It feed? -- Stephen King
Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror. -- Stephen King
A slice of pie without cheese, it's like a kiss without squeeze ... -- Stephen King
Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?
She had shaken her head slowly.
Men and women who can't get over their past ... That's what ghosts are. -- Stephen King
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? -- Stephen King
When you need Stayfree MaxiPads to absorb the expectorants produced by your insulted body, you are in serious fucking trouble. -- Stephen King
They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father or Jacob Marley or some other ... -- Stephen King
It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. Some of the folks in the audience had begun talking in -- Stephen King
He felt that if you didn't have hopes and ambitions when you were a teenager, you'd be pretty much fucked later on. About -- Stephen King
Her name was Ellen and I loved her very much. She love to pick flowers and put them in vayses. What happen was like a horra movie. I never go see horra movies because on Halloween night in 1958 I lived thru one. My -- Stephen King
The devil's voice is sweet to hear. -- Stephen King
See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today. -- Stephen King
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. -- Stephen King
This is the way he was when he still had wars to fight and men to lead and his old friends around him," she thought. "How he was before the world moved on and he moved on with it, chasing that man Walter. This is how he was before the Big Empty turned him inward on himself and made him strange. -- Stephen King
Idea, " he said, "but before I tell you what it is, I think we have to agree on whether or not we have business to do here. Do we want to try again to do what we tried to do once before? Do we want to try to kill It again? Or do we just divide the check up six ways and go back to what we were doing? -- Stephen King
Pushed forward. A flying elbow struck his cheekbone just below his -- Stephen King
The mild June nightbreeze frisking around their ankles and leafing through the pages of a magazine on the hall table. -- Stephen King
We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room . . . . except we are together. We're close. We're having a meeting of the minds. -- Stephen King
Atonement was powerful; it was the lock on the door you closed against the past. -- Stephen King
After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options. -- Stephen King
But the pistol, this Walther ... it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes? -- Stephen King
Harry Dunning graduated with flying colors. -- Stephen King
She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is. -- Stephen King
His words faded, because here were the switches Dan was looking for. The special switches, the ones with the red handles ...
Shine on, he thought, and pulled them all. -- Stephen King
You say true, I say thankya. -- Stephen King
Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure. -- Stephen King
When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone. -- Stephen King
We ought to palaver, you and me." Gwendy -- Stephen King
His rest was thing and lit by the crudely poetic dreams only adolescent boys have, dreams where sexual attraction and romantic love come together and resonate more powerfully than they ever will again. -- Stephen King
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today. -- Stephen King
Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of summer. -- Stephen King
Childhood itself is a myth for almost all of us. We think we remember what happens to us when we were kids, but we don't. -- Stephen King
But what I mean is she talks like a cliche. Do you know that word?" "It means what is always said or believed by people who think only a little or not at all. -- Stephen King
America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time. -- Stephen King
By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research. -- Stephen King
hand gripped his aspirator, but, oddly, his asthma had not closed down as it had on the day he fled from the hobo with the rotted nose. There was only that sense of standing still and watching the house slide stealthily -- Stephen King
I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future. -- Stephen King
Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ... Sometimes he makes us live. -- Stephen King
From outside came a sudden and loud music of birds celebrating their existence. -- Stephen King
The stick we're beaten with is hell, hell, hell! -- Stephen King
The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' Have I answered your question? -- Stephen King
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search. -- Stephen King
When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning one's self w/ cigarette butts, -- Stephen King
It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep. -- Stephen King
He didn't care for light classical music. If you were going to have classical shit, you ought to go whole hog and have your Beethoven or your Wagner or someone like that. Why fuck around? -- Stephen King
The Disney parks are scripted, and I hate that. Hate it. I think what they are doing down there in Orlando is fun-pimping ... -- Stephen King
The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry. -- Stephen King
Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation - -- Stephen King
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. -- Stephen King
Even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass. What's -- Stephen King
During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud around its rudiment of a face. In the specious brilliance of its eyes was a complete history of nothing. It stood there for a long time. -- Stephen King
Some stains don't come out. -- Stephen King
If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners? -- Stephen King
We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. -- Stephen King
He combed his hair like Elvis and had a slightly dangerous look, like a sailor two drinks into a shore leave that will end badly. -- Stephen King
My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind. -- Stephen King
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. -- Stephen King
The idea of ghosts gave his child's mind no trouble at all ... According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost. -- Stephen King
Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair. -- Stephen King
A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable. -- Stephen King
You'll find that God often chooses to speak through the dying and the insane ... A healthy person might be apt to filter the divine message, to alter it with his or her own personality. In other words, a healthy person might make a shitty prophet. -- Stephen King
In this universe there might grow roses which sing. -- Stephen King
I'm a man of the world, and all that means is I understand what powers the world. The fuel mix is one part high-octane to nine parts pure bullshit. -- Stephen King
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy. -- Stephen King
Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red. -- Stephen King
And, of course, one of the great true facts of the world is this: for every old-timer who dies, there's a new old-timer coming along. And a good story never dies; it is always passed down. -- Stephen King
When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch. -- Stephen King
Books are good, and I read my share, and TV's okay if you're stuck in a motel room during a rainstorm, but for Jamie Morton, there was nothing like a movie up there on the big screen. -- Stephen King
He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone how he felt (not that he had anyone to tell), that person would probably laugh until he had a heart-attack. -- Stephen King
None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind. -- Stephen King
Right,' said Don Allman. 'And I'm Robert Frost, stopping by the woods on a snowy fucking evening. -- Stephen King
Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other. -- Stephen King
Stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE -- Stephen King
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. -- Stephen King
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. -- Stephen King
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation. -- Stephen King
You stole my story and something's got to be done about it. -- Stephen King
HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP! -- Stephen King
Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. No more heebie-jeebies. No more whim-whams -- Stephen King
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job? -- Stephen King
And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must ... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that. -- Stephen King
He was the other man, the other face, the hardcase, the dark man, the Walkin Dude, and his rundown bootheels clocked along the perfumed ways of the summer night. -- Stephen King
I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. -- Stephen King
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination. -- Stephen King
History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music. -- Stephen King
The pain had driven him out of his mind. You could see it on his face. If that guy came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood. The -- Stephen King
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. -- Stephen King
while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one. I -- Stephen King
Some nightmares never completely ended. -- Stephen King
Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the almost-empty alley of the road like a lost dog being whipped through a strange and terrible place. -- Stephen King
being alone after someone you love passes on was the worst kind of paralysis. -- Stephen King
I have a real problem with bloat
I write like fat ladies diet. -- Stephen King
Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth? -- Stephen King
Oh, well, spit in the ocean and see if it comes back. -- Stephen King
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them ... and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth. -- Stephen King
The screams were too big to come out. -- Stephen King
SSDD Same Shit Different Day -- Stephen King
maybe, I thought, we were all circus mice, running around with only the dimmest awareness that God and all His heavenly host were watching us in our Bakelite houses through our ivy-glass windows. -- Stephen King
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar. -- Stephen King
Pardon my French if you're a religious man.'
'I am,' Bill said, grinning.
'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing. -- Stephen King
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there. -- Stephen King
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much -- Stephen King
I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves. -- Stephen King
When people talk about the stuff of mine that's frightened them onscreen, they're apt to mention Pennywise the Clown first, then Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes, and then the floating vampire-boys in Lot. -- Stephen King
God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get. -- Stephen King
How old did you have to be to put one over on your mother, anyway? Twenty? Thirty? Or did you maybe have to wait until she got old and a little chicken-soupy in the head? -- Stephen King
Beings too hideous to comprehend, according to Mr. C., and Mr. C. was a gentleman who dealt death for a living. -- Stephen King
I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie. -- Stephen King
There were no violins or warning bells when I pulled the janitor's theme off the top of the stack and set it before me, no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime. -- Stephen King
She looks like a woman who just got laid ... and had about three orgasms. -- Stephen King
Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands; when time goes on long enough, not even historians can remember everything. -- Stephen King
Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*. -- Stephen King
Barbie wasn't sure there was that much difference between city mice and country mice when they were under stress, but he kept his mouth shut. -- Stephen King
A tall man of no age in faded, pegged jeans and a denim jacket. His pockets were stuffed with fifty different kinds of conflicting literature - pamphlets for all seasons, rhetoric for all reasons. -- Stephen King
The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking. -- Stephen King
And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism. -- Stephen King
fags?" "I don't know - " "Do we look like we like fags?" "No, but . . ." "We're your friends, Steve-o," Morrison said solemnly. "And believe me, you and Chris and Webby need all -- Stephen King
You only need to sleep. -- Stephen King
There would be no giving up. Whatever was loose inside him might tear his sanity away from him in the end, but he would give it no quarter in the meantime. -- Stephen King
Satan's First Law of Malignity - to wit, if the worst can happen, it usually will -- Stephen King
When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring. -- Stephen King
You'll float down here with your friends, Beverly, we all float down here, tell Bill that Georgie says hello, tell Bill that Georgie misses him but he'll see him soon, tell him Georgie will be in the closet some night with a piece of piano wire to stick in his eye, tell him - -- Stephen King
Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon. -- Stephen King
The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... -- Stephen King
Adults do not forget the horrors and shamings of their childhood, but those feelings tend to lose their immediacy -- Stephen King
Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie. -- Stephen King
Would you kill all your answers so easily, gunslinger? -- Stephen King
A little of everything, that's what a successful business is all about, Brian. Diversity, pleasure, amazement, fulfillment ... what a successful life is all about, for that matter ... I don't give advice, but if I did, you could do worse than to remember that ... now let me see ... somewhere -- Stephen King
Did you know Carrie White is going to the prom?"
Morty blinked. "With who? The Beak?" The Beak was Freddy Holt, another of Ewen's misfits. He weighed perhaps one hundred pounds soaking wet, and the casual observer might be tempted to believe that sixty of it was nose. -- Stephen King
Do Catholics really go to hell if they eat meat on Fridays? Eddie asked, fascinated, -- Stephen King
Jack Torrance looked back over his shoulder once into the impenetrable, musty-smelling darkness and thought that if there was ever a place that should have ghosts, this was it. -- Stephen King
We'd had our differences over the years, as all brothers do, but brothers also have a way of sticking together when the chips are down. -- Stephen King
but brothers also have a way of sticking together when -- Stephen King
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. -- Stephen King
A sidewalk vendor who was selling hubcaps, rhinestone-glittery straight razors, and Lone Star State flags embossed with the words DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS. -- Stephen King
Most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em ... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price. -- Stephen King
In the Land of Memory the time is always Now.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick ... but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it. -- Stephen King
Deduce is absurd and dangerous -- Stephen King
Most of what writers write about their work is ill-informed bullshit. -- Stephen King
If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself ... and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning. -- Stephen King
I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions. -- Stephen King
We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back. -- Stephen King
Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it. -- Stephen King
Far away, through the gash that led the way into the mountains, he heard the thick mouth of the perpetual thunder. -- Stephen King
He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. -- Stephen King
Darkness loves him. He dances with it like a lover and the moon comes up over the purple hill and what was sweet smells sour. Smells like poison. -- Stephen King
('I'm going to be more assertive, if that's all right with you', as Erma Bombeck says), and -- Stephen King
Those who hold conversation with themselves keep sorry company. -- Stephen King
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
I like a woman who hasn't decided the kitchen's a place of slavery just because she works for a livin." "I feel absolutely the same way about a man, -- Stephen King
The Echo was a rag specializing in yard sales, area sports, and town politics. The residents scanned those things, he supposed, but mostly bought the paper for the obituaries and Police Beat. Everybody liked to know which of their neighbors had died or been jailed. -- Stephen King
Those eyes filled him with the paralyzed, hopeless horror that the hen feels for the weasel. -- Stephen King
He also had a version of Billy Goat's Gruff where the troll under the bridge ended up the winner. -- Stephen King
Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it's a tyrant. -- Stephen King
Liars see their own kind everywhere. -- Stephen King
She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe -- Stephen King
Laws, everything's a chance, isn't it? -- Stephen King
The powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is. -- Stephen King
The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium. -- Stephen King
Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped. -- Stephen King
There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice. -- Stephen King
For readers, one of life's more electrifying discoveries is that they ARE readers--not just capable of doing it...but in love with it...The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts... -- Stephen King
In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke. -- Stephen King
The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change. -- Stephen King
So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious. -- Stephen King
Tanya Robinson is looking at the stage and thinking of the first concert she ever went to - it was the Temps - and how Bobby Wilson kissed her right in the middle of "My Girl." Very romantic. -- Stephen King
Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and live unremarkable lives? -- Stephen King
Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire. -- Stephen King
It's a prissy, overdecorated P238 SIG Sauer, red and black, with gold-inlaid flowers scrolling down the barrel. Morris drops the clip and sees it's full. There's even one in the pipe. He puts the clip back in and lays the gun on the desk - something else to take along. -- Stephen King
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. -- Stephen King
Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame. -- Stephen King
It's like my mother used to say - people have more fun than anybody, except for horses, and they can't. -- Stephen King
Yet he could not tell Annie that, and not just because it might rile her up. He could not tell her because it would hurt her badly, and in spite of all the pain she had afforded him, he found he could not hurt her in that way. He had been hurt way himself. -- Stephen King
Umber whunnnn yerrrnnn umber whunnnn fayunnnn These sounds: even in the haze. -- Stephen King
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it. -- Stephen King
They'll float," it growled, "they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too- -- Stephen King
The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself ... all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough. -- Stephen King
There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he? -- Stephen King
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that. -- Stephen King
When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand. -- Stephen King
It will never stop, Danny thought. The Overlook burned and the most terrible of its revenants went into the lockboxes, but I can't lock away the shining, because it isn't just inside me, it is me. Without booze to at least stun it, these visions will go on until they drive me insane. -- Stephen King
The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self-reliant woman who takes zero shit from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible. -- Stephen King
A coward judges all he sees by what he is. -- Stephen King
May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top! -- Stephen King
Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat -- Stephen King
Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it. -- Stephen King
For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult. -- Stephen King
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. -- Stephen King
They glanced around at each other almost furtively, embarrassed, as Americans always seem to be, by the raw fact of their own success - as if cash were hardcooked eggs and affluence the farts that inevitably follow an overdose of same. -- Stephen King
The wheels of progress; sooner or later they took you back to where you started from. -- Stephen King
Life sucks, then you die -- Stephen King
The world is so empty and so loveless when there's no one in it to holler your name and holler you home. -- Stephen King
Women are good at rhetorical questions, aren't they? -- Stephen King
Detta thought he and Eddie were monsters of some species she called Honk Mafahs. -- Stephen King
CARRIE WHITE IS BURNING FOR HER SINS JESUS NEVER FAILS -- Stephen King
She was still staring at him, eyes wide, nostrils flaring. Honky -- Stephen King
What really bugs Henry about Barry, he supposes, is Barry's complacency. His inner assurance that there is no need to change his self-destructive behavior, let alone search for its roots. -- Stephen King
If the wheels of the universe are in true, then good always compensates for for evil-- but good can be awful as well. -- Stephen King
Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be. -- Stephen King
I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered. -- Stephen King
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. -- Stephen King
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it ... I have written because it fulfilled me ... I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever. -- Stephen King
In the end, it's the bitches of the world who abide . . . and as for the dust bunnies: frig ya! -- Stephen King
Consider this only pointless ritual if it eases you and cools you to do so. Like church. -- Stephen King
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. -- Stephen King
Used to be you could see the orange glow of the hi-intensity arc-sodiums from North Conway, but no more. Now there's just the White Mountains, looking like dark triangles of crepe paper cut out by a child, and the pointless -- Stephen King
Get me out!" he shrieked. "Please! I can't stand it! Get me out! -- Stephen King
Folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme. -- Stephen King
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday. -- Stephen King
He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine. -- Stephen King
They know better than you, they're grown-ups. Jake thought that was bullshit. If being a grown-up really meant knowing better, why did his father go on smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and snorting cocaine until his nose bled? -- Stephen King
August Heat," by W. F. Harvey - that -- Stephen King
Sometimes dead is better -- Stephen King
No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They're the real ghosts. -- Stephen King
The heart, that secret repository where needs and fears elbowed each other continuously like uncomfortable passengers in a crowded subway car... -- Stephen King
Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny. -- Stephen King
I read a jaw-dropping online defense of these weapons from a California woman recently. Guns, she said, are just tools. Like spoons, she said. Would you outlaw spoons simply because some people use them to eat too much? Lady, let's see you try to kill twenty schoolkids with a fucking spoon. -- Stephen King
Everywhere and nowhere as the March wind begin to rise and moan like a dead Berserker winding his horn, it drifted on the wind, lonely and savage. -- Stephen King
It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world. -- Stephen King
Under the California desert and subsidized by the taxpayers' money, someone had finally invented a chain letter that really worked. A very lethal chain letter. -- Stephen King
I hope you come to hear the tale, and not just munch your way through the pages to the ending ... endings are heartless. An ending is a door no man can open. -- Stephen King
Susannah's memory had become distressingly spotty, unreliable, like the half-stripped transmission of an old car. -- Stephen King
Footsteps approaching the door or only the heartbeat in his ears? -- Stephen King
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window. -- Stephen King
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man. -- Stephen King
I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too -- Stephen King
That above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face. -- Stephen King
We never get so mad as when we get caught, do we? -- Stephen King
Molly was a helluva nice girl, but her fried eggs looked like broiled assholes. -- Stephen King
and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max. -- Stephen King
Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality. -- Stephen King
The town knew about darkness.
It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of the human soul -- Stephen King
Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory. -- Stephen King
I don't understand you at all. That concerns me. -- Stephen King
If you kill what you love, you're damned. -- Stephen King
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. -- Stephen King
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. -- Stephen King
Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this. -- Stephen King
Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody -- Stephen King
I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short answer appeared to have W for a middle initial and a dick for a Vice President). -- Stephen King
Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished. -- Stephen King
While the road of good intentions might end in hell, the people who tried to fill the potholes along the way deserved at least some credit. -- Stephen King
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. -- Stephen King
May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain. -- Stephen King
Grease-smeared dogtop as his head dropped between -- Stephen King
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. -- Stephen King
Uncle Henry can call cremation pagan if he wants to, but this open-coffin shit is the real pagan rite. She doesn't look like my mother, she looks like a stuffed rabbit. -- Stephen King
Magic would not work on Henry. He was too stupid. -- Stephen King
Henry said, and sat up. His hands clawed at the air, as if for holds which only Henry could see. His gouged eye leaked and dribbled; its bottom arc now bulged pregnantly down onto his cheek. He looked around, saw Eddie shrinking back against the wall, and tried -- Stephen King
There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation. -- Stephen King
If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it? -- Stephen King
My favorite showed Mimi and Deke doing the twist at a school dance. She looked like she was having fun; he looked like a man with a fair-sized stick up his ass. -- Stephen King
Because it's trouble, and it's in our road. We'll get there in time. No need to live in trouble until trouble comes. -- Stephen King
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high. -- Stephen King
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 way of taking a good dump every now and then. -- Stephen King
You're eating a bitter meal. You don't know that because someone told you it was sweet and your own tastebuds are numb. -- Stephen King
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. -- Stephen King
The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all. -- Stephen King
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds. -- Stephen King
You'd be surprised what a person can live with, Dan said. -- Stephen King
Insofar as story is concerned, and pleasure is concerned, there are not enough Stephen Kings to go around. -- Stephen King
I buy the same ground chuck week after week. I've fed it to hundreds or thousands of people, in spite of those stupid catburger rumors, and it always renews itself. -- Stephen King
Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. -- Stephen King
Unwind the - Stan began, and then there was a much louder explosion. The echo rolled slowly across the Barrens. A cloud of gulls rose from the eastern side of the dump, squalling and crying. They all jumped this time. Stan dropped -- Stephen King
The Drawers are places of desolation," he said. "The Drawers are the waste lands. -- Stephen King
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. -- Stephen King
the only mortal sin is giving up. -- Stephen King
By and large ... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much. -- Stephen King
He touches his wife's smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood . . . its beliefs and desires. -- Stephen King
Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them. -- Stephen King
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination. -- Stephen King
Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache. -- Stephen King
I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us. -- Stephen King
I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together. -- Stephen King
I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. -- Stephen King
It's been my experience (learned when I was just a wee lad with infected ears) that if a medical person tells you you're going to feel a little pinch, they're going to hurt you really bad. -- Stephen King
The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses. -- Stephen King
They stood on the porch in the fading light, Jack in the middle, his left arm around Danny's shoulders and his right arm around Wendy's waist. Together they watched as the decision was taken out of their hands. -- Stephen King
At half past three, in the ditch of the night, Alice said: Oh, Mummy, too bad! Fading roses, this garden's over. -- Stephen King
If you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're done. -- Stephen King
I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages. -- Stephen King
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis. -- Stephen King
The world was round, that was the deadly truth of it. -- Stephen King
So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER! -- Stephen King
Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit. -- Stephen King
Let me close with a word of caution: when you're on the turnpikes and freeways of America, watch out for those Winnebagos and Bounders. You never know who might be inside. Or what. -- Stephen King
When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank. -- Stephen King
Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face. -- Stephen King
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. -- Stephen King
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. -- Stephen King
Just a moment his own consciousness had plunged through his daddy's darkness to an incomprehensible word much more frightening than DIVORCE, and that word was SUICIDE. -- Stephen King
When Hodges returns to his chair with his small bundle of mail, the fight-show host is saying goodbye and promising his TV Land audience that tomorrow there will be midgets. Whether of the physical or mental variety he does not specify. -- Stephen King
Long days and pleasant nights. -- Stephen King
Thanks to you guys and girls who read my stuff, too. May you have long days and pleasant nights. -- Stephen King
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. -- Stephen King
And why? Because they're too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth's dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath. "More -- Stephen King
I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something ... set yourself on something ... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies? -- Stephen King
They called him well preserved, but they used the term in a way that was uneasy rather than complimentary. -- Stephen King
The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis. -- Stephen King
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it. -- Stephen King
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. -- Stephen King
At night, when i go to bed i still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets after the lights go out. I am not a child anymore but .. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, i might scream. -- Stephen King
When your lover begins to talk about "offending" you, he's not your lover anymore. -- Stephen King
The gunslinger's stomach seemed to rise painfully against his heart, but his face didn't change. -- Stephen King
There's no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back! -- Stephen King
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions. -- Stephen King
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. -- Stephen King
A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water. -- Stephen King
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. -- Stephen King
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds. -- Stephen King
The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening. -- Stephen King
COME ON, MAHFAHS!' she screamed. 'YOU JUST COME ON! YOU JUST COME FOR EM! I'M GONNA BLOW YO EYES RIGHT BACK THROUGH YO FUCKIN ASSHOLES! -- Stephen King
It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought. -- Stephen King
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. -- Stephen King
The pain'll start creeping in again by midnight, but that should give us enough time to talk this through." He sipped again and gave me a look of rueful amusement. "Human things are terrific right to the end, it seems like. I never would have guessed. -- Stephen King
Never will you talk to me like that again. -- Stephen King
I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it. -- Stephen King
Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious. -- Stephen King
We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is. -- Stephen King
A little bit of grace. That's what a good dog is, you know. A little bit of grace." Timlin -- Stephen King
Maybe Timlin was wrong about the nothing. It was possible. In a world where you could look up and see an eternal hallway of stars, he reckoned anything was. Maybe - Maybe. Gandalf -- Stephen King
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do
make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know. -- Stephen King
Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out. -- Stephen King
This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights. -- Stephen King
The only contingency he had not learned how to bear was the possibility of his own madness. -- Stephen King
Boards." He paused. "I saved the worst for last. We can declassify Princess back to plain old Eva Hodges, female, age four, -- Stephen King
Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend. -- Stephen King
He put a bullet through the forehead of the starving idiot face. -- Stephen King
Well, I'll tell you one thing, Dorothy,' Eddie said. 'You ain't in Kansas anymore. -- Stephen King
Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. -- Stephen King
Minute. And indeed it seemed she never had, or at least never one like this, because when she blinked her eyes it turned into a telephone handset, -- Stephen King
She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache ... -- Stephen King
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. -- Stephen King
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature. -- Stephen King
I hope I can make or across the border. I hope the pacific is as blue as it is in my dreams. I hope I get to see my friend. I hope ... -- Stephen King
Larry woke up with a hangover that was not too bad, a mouth that tasted as if a baby dragon had used it for a potty chair -- Stephen King
But her thoughts are swept away by the utter sweetness of it, and she barely hears him whispering, "I love you, Bev, I love you, I'll always love you" saying it over and over and not stuttering at all. She -- Stephen King
Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses. -- Stephen King
Verbs come in two types, active and passive. With an active verb, the subject of the sentence is doing something. With a passive verb, something is being done to the subject of the sentence. -- Stephen King
Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them. -- Stephen King
Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddam right. -- Stephen King
Anything at all . . . . as long as you tell the truth. -- Stephen King
Writing fiction ... is no job for intellectual cowards. -- Stephen King
Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God. -- Stephen King
And her face was white as a sheet despite the burning glory of the Lord's sunshine. Padre! -- Stephen King
WIFE AND DOG MISSING. REWARD FOR DOG. -- Stephen King
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. -- Stephen King
For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid. -- Stephen King
Why am I here?" Jake asked. "Why did I forget everything from before?" "Because the man in black has drawn you here," the gunslinger said. "And because of the Tower. The Tower stands at a kind of . . . power-nexus. In time." "I don't understand that! -- Stephen King
I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot. -- Stephen King
I foresee problems -- Stephen King
At first everything went according to plan and they called it ka. When things began going wrong and the dying started, they called that ka, too. Ka, the gunslinger could have told them, was often the last thing you had to rise above. -- Stephen King
It's also important to remember that no one is "the bad guy" or "the best friend" or "the whore with a heart of gold" in real life; in real life we each of us regard ourselves as the main character, the protagonist, the big cheese; the camera is on us, baby. -- Stephen King
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down. -- Stephen King
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. -- Stephen King
Basically, I'm just a ramblin guy,' he said, and laughed. 'A ramblin guy on his way to the Big Sky.' And hell why not? Montana! Or Wyoming. Fucking Rapid City, South Dakota. Anyplace but here. - Barbie -- Stephen King
That's no good. If there's no joy in it, it's just no good. It's best to go on to some other area, where the deposits of talent may be richer and the fun quotient higher. -- Stephen King
He looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way. -- Stephen King
No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jack's application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely bare except for a blotter, a telephone, a Tensor lamp, and an in/out basket. Both sides of the in/out were empty, too. -- Stephen King
The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated. -- Stephen King
Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand. -- Stephen King
Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we? -- Stephen King
We continue to learn or we dig a rut and furnish it. -- Stephen King
sides. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you. You -- Stephen King
It's God's nature to come on in the bottom of the ninth, Tom had told her. -- Stephen King
I fell in love with you, he said. That's why I said it. It happened even before you kissed me, I think. -- Stephen King
For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He ... or she ... is cut short before he ... or she ... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven. -- Stephen King
There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff. -- Stephen King
If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English Department, and if the writing was organized into actual paragraphs, you got at least a B-minus. -- Stephen King
She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear. -- Stephen King
There is a core simplicity to the English language and its American variant, but it's a slippery core. -- Stephen King
She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours. -- Stephen King
Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow. -- Stephen King
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short. -- Stephen King
And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was. -- Stephen King
He liked the way his laughter sounded with theirs. It was a sound he had never heard before: not mingled laughter - he had heard that lots of times - but mingled laughter of which his own was a part. -- Stephen King
They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, 'What happened to so-and-so?' ... as if I got letters from them every now and again. -- Stephen King
His hands had dropped to the worn butts of his guns. "Those do not open doors, gunslinger; those only close them forever. -- Stephen King
There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower. -- Stephen King
No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said. -- Stephen King
The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it. -- Stephen King
And still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling - over trick for you not once or twice but all night. -- Stephen King
The gunslinger nodded amiably. -- Stephen King
What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger! the man in black laughed. -- Stephen King
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do. -- Stephen King
and for the first time in months or years the gunslinger could see real, living green. Grass, -- Stephen King
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go -- Stephen King
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. -- Stephen King
Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals. -- Stephen King
Do you see how little it all matters? How quickly and easily I can take it all away, should I choose to do so? Beware, gunslinger! Beware, shaman! The abyss is all around you. You float or fall into it at my whim. -- Stephen King
Jamie DeCurry had once proclaimed that Roland could shoot blindfolded, because he had eyes in his fingers. -- Stephen King
Such lack of understanding was frightening. He's right, the gunslinger thought. We are broken. Gods help us. -- Stephen King
I denied Discordia and regret nothing; I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice; I threw my lot with the gunslinger and the White and never once questioned the choice. -- Stephen King
The gunslinger occasionally moaned with the wind. The stars were as indifferent to this as they were to wars, crucifixions, resurrections. -- Stephen King
Sure. Knock yourself out." "I don't understand you." "Do what you want." "Ah." The gunslinger nodded and lay back. Knock myself out, he thought. Knock. Myself out. -- Stephen King
It didn't occur to her that this was an amazing piece of shooting, especially with a pistol; she was a gunslinger, after all, and shooting was her business. Besides, -- Stephen King
On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two. -- Stephen King
What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To suggest an ending is the one absurdity -The Man in Black from Stephen King's The Gunslinger -- Stephen King
We all die in time," the gunslinger said. "It's not just the world that moves on. -- Stephen King
for the first time in months or years the gunslinger could see real, living green. -- Stephen King
The trap had a ghastly perfection -- Stephen King
We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways. -- Stephen King
The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger's own moaning future. -- Stephen King
Time is a thief of memory -- Stephen King
For Gilead and the Calla!" he roared. "Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all! -- Stephen King
Death, but not for you, gunslinger. -- Stephen King
The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle. -- Stephen King
The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed. -- Stephen King
I Cry your pardon." ~ The Gunslinger -- Stephen King
Are you a gunslinger, Roland? If you are, you better get ready. -- Stephen King
Once again there was the desert, and that only. -- Stephen King
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie -- Stephen King
Beg your pardon,' the gunslinger said. 'I was wool-gathering. -- Stephen King
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. -- Stephen King
They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. -- Stephen King
Dreams age faster than dreamers. -- Stephen King
It's been nice to see you again. Another of those things you just say, a bit of grease to keep the wheels turning, -- Stephen King
A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain -- Stephen King
Maybe I'm being too hard on both of us. Shit, we were young and reasonably idealistic. -- Stephen King
It's considered bad form to laugh at your own jokes (especially when they're teensy ones), but some people are so engaging they never have to laugh alone. Chaz -- Stephen King
Teaching, even when it was just subbing, was like having a pair of jumper cables attached to some critical part of your brain. It was good that the kids could draw power from that part, but there was precious little left over. Many -- Stephen King
I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me. -- Stephen King
But when it comes to fiction, the writer's only responsibility is to look for the truth inside his own heart. -- Stephen King
It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to. -- Stephen King
A liberal arts education teaches you how to think - I read that somewhere. The hard facts you learn are secondary to that. The big thing you take away from school with you is how to induct and deduct in a constructive way. -- Stephen King
If they're old enough to pee, they're old enough for me. -- Stephen King
had limped up to me after homeroom period (which had been particularly screechy, as all homerooms and study halls tend to be on the last day of school) and offered me his hand. -- Stephen King
End, aren't we? Beverly said. She had begun to cry. This sound was also magnified in the library's still emptiness; the building itself seemed to be weeping with her. Bill thought that if he had to listen to that sound for long, -- Stephen King
God isn't as important to people now," my mother said one day after a particularly disappointing turnout. "A day will come when they'll be sorry for that. -- Stephen King
They said the stock market crashed, or something, but since I'm deaf I didn't hear it (ha-ha). -- Stephen King
Sometimes you can't help people. Sometimes it's better not even to try. -- Stephen King
Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie. -- Stephen King
All that shit starts in E. -- Stephen King
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. -- Stephen King
Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls. -- Stephen King
It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then. -- Stephen King
Waking to the truth when it's too late is a terrible thing. I know that very well. -- Stephen King
Sits a grownup looking at the same old statue, and hey, Paul, Tall Paul, I'm here to say you're the same in every way, you ain't aged a motherfucking day. -- Stephen King
The TV is showing another of those reality things, a program that pimps a bunch of good-looking young women to a hunky bachelor who looks like he might have the IQ of a floor lamp. -- Stephen King
It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets) -- Stephen King
Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going to find that going around. -- Stephen King
You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that. -- Stephen King
Nerves, he thought, were for people who hadn't entirely made up their minds. -- Stephen King
I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it), ... -- Stephen King
Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore. -- Stephen King
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present. -- Stephen King
Let God have His own cat. -- Stephen King
Clay Blaisdell Western -- Stephen King
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed. -- Stephen King
The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets ... as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite. -- Stephen King
JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever -- Stephen King
Some people say I am a terrible person. I'm not, I have the heart of a young boy ... in a jar, on my desk. -- Stephen King
As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us. There -- Stephen King
Once I had no children and eight ideas. Now I have eight children and no ideas. -- Stephen King
Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument. -- Stephen King
Language is play to most writers, thoughts are play. -- Stephen King
Resolution demands a sacrifice. -- Stephen King
when straws are all you have, you grasp them. There -- Stephen King
He supposed it was good none of them knew how lost he was just now, how absent the intuition that had carried him through so many difficult situations. -- Stephen King
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. -- Stephen King
Billy was walking up the hall, buckling his belt. His tanned face was now sallow and wet with sweat. He says there's a bulge in my aorta. Like a bubble in a car tire. Only car tires don't yell when you poke em. -- Stephen King
George paused just beyond the sawhorses at the edge of a deep ravine that had been cut through the tar surface of Witcham Street. This -- Stephen King
Here you are, just out of Death's Motel and short an arm, and she wants to call it off. Because you poked her with a plastic hospital knife when you could barely remember your own name? Fuck me til I cry! -- Stephen King
Bad chances were better than no chances. -- Stephen King
great family medical practice in the sky. -- Stephen King
Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to. -- Stephen King
We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well. -- Stephen King
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it. -- Stephen King
If you want to play, you gotta pay. -- Stephen King
At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream. -- Stephen King
I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise. -- Stephen King
Death is when the monsters get you. -- Stephen King
Eddie's got a broken arm. Why did I lead them down here? Christ! Why did I? "Bill? " Ben said anxiously. -- Stephen King
The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset. -- Stephen King
Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy. -- Stephen King
The roadblock had disappeared under his fingers as magically as cotton candy dissolves on the lips. -- Stephen King
Shut up, candy-ass, -- Stephen King
People change; sometimes they go up the ladder and sometimes they go down. -- Stephen King
Horror spawns horror -- Stephen King
When all else fails, give up and go to the library. -- Stephen King
We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other. -- Stephen King
He allowed his eyelids to unclose themselves a tiny fraction, letting his head still loll limply on his neck. -- Stephen King
But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. -- Stephen King
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. -- Stephen King
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot. -- Stephen King
Reserve me a room . . . say me a prayer. -- Stephen King
He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay. -- Stephen King
The dead river of its breath would wash over him. -- Stephen King
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. -- Stephen King
When you've had a little success, magazines are a lot less apt to use that phrase, 'Not for us. -- Stephen King
The world is hard and you can't have everything. -- Stephen King
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. -- Stephen King
How we danced!" - Sadie -- Stephen King
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all. -- Stephen King
In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom. -- Stephen King
...sometimes the truth is beautiful. -- Stephen King
She was wearing a tank-top with torn-off sleeves. It gave an awfully generous view of her breasts for a girl worried about meeting Ted Bundy in a Ryder van. -- Stephen King
I guess that means I won in the end, at least in a financial sense. But in my heart I stayed ashamed. I kept hearing Miss Hisler asking me why I wanted to waste my talent, why I wanted to waste my time, why I wanted to write junk. -- Stephen King
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. -- Stephen King
I metaphor for sex, but she slapped my face and walked away when I asked. -- Stephen King
Many already leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express -- Stephen King
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. -- Stephen King
Trixie pixie nixie," she said. "To her it's all a game. All our sorrow. And she's awake again. -- Stephen King
He learned in high school that thinking too long about writing doesn't work for him. Too many other ideas get into his head and start sliding all over each other. It's better to just fire away. -- Stephen King
And the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins. -- Stephen King
And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die. -- Stephen King
That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can't answer ... but that wasn't the same thing as I don't know. Far from it. -- Stephen King
How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap - a -- Stephen King
That ain't Chanel Number Five I smell comin from the direction of your butt, is it? -- Stephen King
Sometimes you caught a break, but outright freebies?
Never. -- Stephen King
May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest. -- Stephen King
It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody. -- Stephen King
You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end. -- Stephen King
There's an old joke about Alzheimer's: the good news is that you meet new people every day. -- Stephen King
Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for. -- Stephen King
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills. -- Stephen King
I'm not a klutz and I'm not being stupid, " he said -- Stephen King
Give me what I want and I will go away -- Stephen King
I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea. -- Stephen King
Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill. -- Stephen King
When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child. -- Stephen King
Better to stick with the original plan. -- Stephen King
Barely see Mike against the other wall. " "Before you went out? " Beverly -- Stephen King
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. -- Stephen King
Will I like it Jake? In your place?'
'I hope so, hon.'
'Is it very different?'
I smiled. 'People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same. -- Stephen King
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. -- Stephen King
The two things are like apples and oranges, Annie. People who tell stories usually can't write stories. -- Stephen King
He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending. -- Stephen King
Stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech. -- Stephen King
But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn't always have a lot to do with objective truth. -- Stephen King
If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the horror I suppose almost any man feels when he sees blood pouring from a part of his body that was whole only seconds before. -- Stephen King
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. -- Stephen King
Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business. -- Stephen King
He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine! -- Stephen King
Eddie who breaks the silence. "How much do you think It knows about what we're doing now? " he asks. "It was here, wasn't It? " Ben says. -- Stephen King
Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real. -- Stephen King
The technological society has walked off the court, so to speak, but they've left all the basketballs behind. Someone will come along who remembers the game and teach it to the rest again. -- Stephen King
You've got to Boston, and you've got to go now! -- Stephen King
That's me, Brady thought happily. When they give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman. -- Stephen King
It's been quite a while since I was really afraid that there was a boogeyman in my closet, although I am still very careful to keep my feet under the covers when I go to sleep, because the covers are magic, and if your feet are covered, it's like boogeyman Kryptonite. -- Stephen King
Dan gripped tighter, increasing the pressure until the lowered eyes came up and met his. We're all going to Boston, but John and I have other business to take care of there. -- Stephen King
[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today. -- Stephen King
The year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy. -- Stephen King
But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does ...
I will come to Mother. -- Stephen King
We was used to each other in the way I s'pose two old bats can get used to hangin upside-down next to each other in the same cave, even though they're a long way from what you'd call the best of friends. -- Stephen King
Sometimes, Dolores, sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang onto. -- Stephen King
Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with you translating what you see in your mind into words on the page. -- Stephen King
Politics always change. Stories never do. -- Stephen King
I felt tired and grainy and not able to tell how much damage had been done to me. I had a leaden feeling that it was more than I really needed. -- Stephen King
The battle-fire had dropped over him, burning him everywhere with its righteous heat, sizzling his sight, frying his synapses and roasting his heart in its holy glow. -- Stephen King
Was when Beverly screamed, a high-pitched sound in the stillness. The vaulted dome overhead picked it up, and the echoes were like the laughter of banshees, -- Stephen King
I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life ... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters. -- Stephen King
He pulled the door open and saw a Checker cab sitting out there, an ambassador from the land of sanity. -- Stephen King
SOWISA (strap on whenever it seems appropriate) -- Stephen King
Hello, Not-There, Piper said. Not-There was her private name for God just lately. Earlier in the fall it had been The Great Maybe. During the summer, it had been The Omnipotent Could-Be. -- Stephen King
It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear. -- Stephen King
Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores. -- Stephen King
We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy. -- Stephen King
What had been left of the eighty-nine people aboard hadn't looked much different from a Hamburger Helper casserole. -- Stephen King
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived ... I didn't even want to go over a bridge. -- Stephen King
No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges's opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat. -- Stephen King
I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.
In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This ... and this ... and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home. -- Stephen King
The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. -- Stephen King
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. -- Stephen King
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. -- Stephen King
Philosophers and psychologists may argue over what's real and what isn't, but most of us living ordinary lives know and accept the texture of the world around us. -- Stephen King
Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships, that bringeth food from afar. -- Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside a lie. -- Stephen King
Lift the rug of your subconscious and sweep all the dirt under. Good-bye. -- Stephen King
There's something creepy about any repeating dream, I think, about knowing your subconscious is digging obsessively at some object that won't be dislodged. -- Stephen King
These things were...well...they were dreams-made-real. And once dreams became real, they escaped the power of the dreamer and became their own deadly things, capable of independent action. -- Stephen King
Get on before I blow you lose of your shoes and give your fathers cause to celebrate! -- Stephen King
America was staggeringly unobservant even twelve years into the Dark Age of Terrorism. If you see something, say something was a hell of a slogan, but first you had to see something. -- Stephen King
In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It's about making them scary again. -- Stephen King
The sun stands low in the cloudless eastern sky, a fat, confident yellow-white ball advancing as ever for the first time toward the future and leaving in its wake the steadily accumulating past, which darkens as it recedes, making blind men of us all. -- Stephen King
And that's when you realize what the Wagon really is, Lloyd. It's a church with bars on the windows, a church for women and a prison for you. -- Stephen King
Put on your rain-stuff, " Bill said, "or you'll wind up with the fluh-hu like me. Probably catch -- Stephen King
Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality. -- Stephen King
Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing. -- Stephen King
The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks. -- Stephen King
Girls don't need eye makeup until they're in their thirties, -- Stephen King
Beware the dark stranger! He rides a unicycle! -- Stephen King
Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good. -- Stephen King
You know what, kid? It's guys like you who give reading a bad name. -- Stephen King
Holly sighs. "I'm out of cigarettes, too." "Those things will kill you," Jerome says. She gives him a flat look. "Yes! That's part of their charm. -- Stephen King
It was, he supossed, one of the adventages of having married a doctor- you could shove the kid at your husband whenever the kid seemed to be dying. -- Stephen King
Nevertheless, he was already a sick man. He had gotten more than gas at Bill Hapscomb's Texaco. And he gave Harry Trent more than a speeding summons. -- Stephen King
Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids ... on my desk in little jars! -- Stephen King
Real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time. -- Stephen King
I was "unable to feel my feelings," in -- Stephen King
When things got weird enough, some always found a lynchrope, it seemed. -- Stephen King
death of a child or a brother or a sister, one may half-waken, thinking of that person with that same lost emptiness, that feeling of places which may never be filled . . . perhaps not even in death? -- Stephen King
Writing is a solitary job, and should be taken to someone who believes in you. -- Stephen King
It was also easy to imagine the good smells, the laughter as they sat down. Easy to imagine . . . but probably a mistake. It -- Stephen King
I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse -- Stephen King
It's really just paint. I muse on that, sometimes, Jamie. When I can't sleep. How a little paint can make shallow water seem deep. -- Stephen King
God always asks for a sacrifice. His hands are bloody with it. Why? I can't say. I'm not a very smart man. P'raps we brought it on ourselves. -- Stephen King
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone -- Stephen King
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. -- Stephen King
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. -- Stephen King
There's a wavelength, and they're on it. -- Stephen King
I pointed at Wireman's forehead. "This is your brain," I said. Then I pointed at my easel. "This is your brain on canvas. -- Stephen King
I won't be mad, he'd told Tobin, but he was mad. Really mad. Not mad enough to kill a kid, of course not (probably of course not), but he wasn't going to let the little Judas-goat out of his sight, either. -- Stephen King
I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain. -- Stephen King
He was as surprised as anyone when the excrement hit the cooling device. He -- Stephen King
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance. -- Stephen King
Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye -- Stephen King
He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing. -- Stephen King
Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. -- Stephen King
Rachel would call the vet this morning, they would get Church fixed, and that would put this whole nonsense of Pet Semataries(it was funny how that misspelling got into your head and began to seem right) and death fears behind them. -- Stephen King
Better to be dirty than dead. -- Stephen King
The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It's more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop. The church is a Force ... and one does not set a Force in motion lightly. -- Stephen King
He had never been a Boy Scout, but believed in being prepared. -- Stephen King
Honesty's the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes Liars prosper. - Anonymous -- Stephen King
When I was a kid, my mother said, 'Stephen if you were a girl, you'd always be pregnant. -- Stephen King
Home was the place where, when you have to go there, they have to chain you up. -- Stephen King
He could not close his eyes and just walk by; that was a real monster his traitor mind had created, and it could really tear him apart. -- Stephen King
All small towns, scandal is always simmering on the back burner, like your Aunt Cindy's baked beans. -- Stephen King
He began to cry soundlessly. The tide had never gone out so far; he could see nothing but drying mudflats and those splintered pilings which cast their eternal damaged shadows. She -- Stephen King
Movies, they were the thing. Movies took you away. You could count on popcorn and happy endings. -- Stephen King
I shrugged. 'Any fool can peel the Apple,' I said. 'It takes a real man to eat the core. -- Stephen King
This is a place between, Susannah; a place where shadows are cancelled and time holds its breath. Then -- Stephen King
Croquet is bastardized roque. -- Stephen King
On the coffee table is a half-empty bottle of Smirnoff's and two cans of NutraSlim. High tea in hell, he thinks, but -- Stephen King
He looked at the white pills in his hand. 'Astin', Eddie called it. No, that wasn't quite right, but Roland couldn't pronounce the word as the prisoner had said it. Medicine was what it came down to. Medicine from that other world. -- Stephen King
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems. -- Stephen King
Love me. My head is so bad tonight. Love me. Love me. -- Stephen King
It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down. -- Stephen King
The road, and the mysteries that lie along it, calls out to none as it calls to the young. -- Stephen King
I don't know if a little tickle of psychic ability means we are divine; there are plenty of people who can accept the miracle of eyesight without believing that eyesight proves the existence of God ... -- Stephen King
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King
You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass. -- Stephen King
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map ... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. -- Stephen King
Barbie did so, and poured his own cup of coffee. It was the bottom of the pot and tasted like diesel . . . but of course the bottom of the pot was where the caffeine motherlode was. Julia -- Stephen King
Seen from the expressway at quarter to five in the morning, Boston seems a city of the dead brooding over some tragedy in its past - a plague, perhaps, or a curse. -- Stephen King
Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again. -- Stephen King
At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground -- Stephen King
A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees. -- Stephen King
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially
not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake. -- Stephen King
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows. -- Stephen King
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses ... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force. -- Stephen King
Don't you dare do it, Eddie! Don't you dare! Wet feet, that's one way - one of the thousands of ways - that colds start, and colds lead to pneumonia, so don't you do it! -- Stephen King
She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again. -- Stephen King
Nightmare agenda if ever there was one, she thinks - but that crazy exhilaration persists. When did she last feel this young? She can hardly sit still. "The 20th of July, " Eddie muses, rolling his aspirator along the table from one hand to the other. "Three or four days after -- Stephen King
I stroked a big red A on top of his paper. Looked at it for a moment or two, then added a big red +. Because it was good, and because his pain had evoked an emotional reaction in me, his reader. And isn't that what A+ writing is supposed to do? Evoke a response? -- Stephen King
Sometimes God dillies and dallies,' Steve said, 'and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock. -- Stephen King
There's precious little reform in the human race. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
Then they will have drinks and a meal and talk about the grace of God and how everything happens for a reason. God's grace is a pretty cool concept. It stays intact every time it's not you. -- Stephen King
Art should be a place of hope. -- Stephen King
I'm crying because we're here," he says. "On a beautiful fall day that feels like summer. -- Stephen King
It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette. -- Stephen King
Come on, big guy. Let's go for a ride. Let's cruise. -- Stephen King
Literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness. -- Stephen King
The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU. -- Stephen King
Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster -- Stephen King
Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it. -- Stephen King
Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time. -- Stephen King
Better to be a mouse behind the wainscoting, nibbling at the wires. Better to be a spider, high up under the eaves, spinning its web. -- Stephen King
I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking. -- Stephen King
He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds ... never in their hearts. -- Stephen King
paranoid, you said so in your notes. He knew the KGB and MVD were watching him in Minsk, and he's going to be afraid that the FBI and the -- Stephen King
Can you keep a secret? Say no and I'll have to kill you. -- Stephen King
People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book. -- Stephen King
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister. -- Stephen King
Wait or me where the trees clear and the water's sweet. I'll come to ye, ay, as sure as dawn makes shadows run west. -- Stephen King
Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way. -- Stephen King
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. -- Stephen King
She's ten years from a hundred and still thinks she deserves perfection, -- Stephen King
Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night. -- Stephen King
I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think). -- Stephen King
What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That's called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt. -- Stephen King
You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives -- Stephen King
The record changer clicked; another record dropped down. In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.
It was nine-fifteen. -- Stephen King
When we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' . -- Stephen King
It's a hard life if you don't weaken. -- Stephen King
Ah, it's a real pit. Sort of place where they eat what they run over on the road. Gorillaville. You eat the beer, then you drink -- Stephen King
Sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there? -- Stephen King
Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant. -- Stephen King
Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story -- Stephen King
Yes, I used to trim her topiary at least once a week. -- Stephen King
There are forces. -- Stephen King
And birds in the hand such an irritating way of pecking your fingers, shitting in your palm, and then flying away. -- Stephen King
It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it. -- Stephen King
Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind. -- Stephen King
Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing. -- Stephen King
Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. -- Stephen King
When the blood came out of my mouth I could taste my own shit. -- Stephen King
... it would matter ... to the tens of thousands of young Americans ... who would ... be invited to put on uniforms, fly to the other side of the world, spread their nether cheeks, and sit down on the big green dildo that was Vietnam. -- Stephen King
His single-minded purpose. His unending fury. -- Stephen King
The road to recovery led through the Land of Pain, that was all. -- Stephen King
But did not Shakespeare say a man can smile, and smile, and be a villain? -- Stephen King
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers. -- Stephen King
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good - they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray - and shades of gray are also a part of life. -- Stephen King
You can't be careful on a skateboard, man." - some kid 1 -- Stephen King
I woke up. I didn't scream. That night I kept the scream in my throat. Just barely. I sat up in my bed, a cold puddle of moonlight caught in a lapful of sheet, and I thought, Died suddenly. That night I didn't get back to sleep so quickly. -- Stephen King
I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go to dream. -- Stephen King
But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back - all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? -- Stephen King
Oouuu, you nasty man! -- Stephen King
I called the doctor on the telephone, Said doctor, doctor, please, I got this feeling, rocking and reeling, Tell me, what can it be? Is it some new disease? - The Sylvers -- Stephen King
It doesn't have to be the last good time. But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us. -- Stephen King
That in turn made him think of some poem or other, one about how you could spend years running, but in the end you always wound up facing yourself in a hotel room, with a naked bulb hanging overhead and a revolver on the table. -- Stephen King
Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally. -- Stephen King
Going north, he thought, but that was wrong. Not going north. Because it's not a train; it's a time machine. Not north; back. Back in time. He thought he heard the moon mutter. -- Stephen King
They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability. -- Stephen King
Now that he was dead, Paul could look at him. The cop looked like a big doll that has been badly treated by a gang of nasty children. -- Stephen King
My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age. -- Stephen King
What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends. -- Stephen King
He had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there's nothing quite like them for relieving one's feelings. -- Stephen King
Dufresne, his name was - I remember, because it sounds a little like mine. It seems he was not so smart at wife-killing as he was at picking growth stocks. -- Stephen King
Yes. Can you print these pictures and make sure the others have copies? Particularly Barry. He's Locator in Chief on this one." "I'll do it right now. I'm packing a Fujitsu ScanSnap. Great little on-the-go machine. -- Stephen King
Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can. -- Stephen King
That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. -- Stephen King
Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed. -- Stephen King
The newest animal Route 5 had used up, it seemed, was my daughter's beloved pet. We buried Smucky in the pet sematary. My daughter made the grave marker, which read Smucky: He was obediant. (Smucky wasn't in the least obedient, of course; he was a cat, for heaven's sake.) -- Stephen King
I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book. -- Stephen King
And George saw the clown's face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. "They -- Stephen King
He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life - not even if that life stretched over a thousand years. Roland of Gilead was weeping. -- Stephen King
...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in... -- Stephen King
She did not sing it at bedtimes because all small boys born to the High Speech must face the dark alone, -- Stephen King
Even when love isn't enough ... somehow it is. -- Stephen King
One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon. -- Stephen King
You somehow didn't expect cleverness from a girl this beautiful; beautiful girls did not, as a rule, have to be clever. So far as Bert could tell, all beautiful girls had to do was wake up in the morning. -- Stephen King
As I recall, I had my own invisible friend when I was Danny's age, a talking rooster named Chug-Chug. -- Stephen King
The part of me that creates the stories exists only in solitude. The one who shows up to share anecdotes and answer questions is a poor substitute for the story-maker. -- Stephen King
The turtle couldn't help us. -- Stephen King
Showers early, then clearing. When Barry Manilow began moaning about Mandy, who came and who gave without takin', the cabbie snapped the radio off. Bill -- Stephen King
She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders. -- Stephen King
The wise man doesn't poke a sleeping bear with a stick. -- Stephen King
but the nice thing about kite-flying is nothing gets killed. -- Stephen King
Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be. -- Stephen King
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work. -- Stephen King
To write is human, to edit is divine. -- Stephen King
They seemed as unreal as actors when you saw them on a movie screen. They were big up there - often beautiful, too - but they were still only shadows thrown by light. -- Stephen King
[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain. -- Stephen King
Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that. -- Stephen King
Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them. -- Stephen King
Tattoo Man in his fishtop cap and dark glasses and sandy blond goatee. You could see the bird tattoo on his hand because the rawhide gloves had stayed in his back pocket until he and Linda Gray were in -- Stephen King
You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know. -- Stephen King
Most people are fitted with Lead Boots when they are just little kids and have to wear them all their lives. These Lead Boots are called A CONSCIENCE. I have none, so I can soar high above the heads of the Normal Crowd. -- Stephen King
The country is an amazing paradox. In other lands, when a man eats to his fullest day after day, that man becomes fat ... sleepy ... piggish. But in this land ... it seems the more you have the more aggressive you become. -- Stephen King
Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations. -- Stephen King
The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use? -- Stephen King
Never before in his life had he understood how subjective, how plastic, time really is. -- Stephen King
At such times one sees everything and remembers it all. I know from personal experience. I wish I did not. -- Stephen King
abysmally beshitted. -- Stephen King
Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years. -- Stephen King
Invitation to Dance-
It's a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
But we'll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
May I have the pleasure? -- Stephen King
We've become so used to the idea of the flu - it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it? - that no one but the historians seems to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist. -- Stephen King
Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha. -- Stephen King
The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat. -- Stephen King
He looked up to see if the sun had gone behind a cloud. It hadn't, but it almost seemed to him that there was a black corona forming around its brilliant circle, like a ring of mascara around a startled eye. Half -- Stephen King
The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing. -- Stephen King
Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass. -- Stephen King
In this book," he said, "Mr. Simak postulates the idea that there are a number of worlds like ours. Not other planets but other Earths, parallel Earths, in a kind of ring around the sun. -- Stephen King
I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on. -- Stephen King
Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is let me do what I want taken to its final extreme. -- Stephen King
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person -- Stephen King
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor. -- Stephen King
Then you start to see things, Lloydy-my-boy. Things you missed from the gutter. Like how the floor of the Wagon is nothing but straight pine boards, so fresh they're still bleeding sap, and if you took your shoes off you'd be sure to get a splinter. -- Stephen King
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. -- Stephen King
I may look like Froggy the Gremlin, but in truth I'm Prince Fuckin Charming. -- Stephen King
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never. -- Stephen King
At first they hadn't been so bad, but little by little ... his daddy thought about drinking a lot more. Sometimes he was angry at Mommy and didn't know why. He went around wiping his lips with his handkerchief and his eyes were far away and cloudy. -- Stephen King
I just saw myself as a novelist. -- Stephen King
He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown. -- Stephen King
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories, -- Stephen King
True sorrow is as rare as true love. I'm -- Stephen King
I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that. -- Stephen King
I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer. -- Stephen King
Once was memorable; twice would have been indelible. Maybe -- Stephen King
In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [ ... ] The thoughts that came wanted to be wholly good. -- Stephen King
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult. -- Stephen King
All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job. -- Stephen King
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. -- Stephen King
He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her. -- Stephen King
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. -- Stephen King
But these lands, though poisoned, were not entirely dead. -- Stephen King
Da-da chum da-da che, not to worry you've got the key! -- Stephen King
They no longer saw themselves as doers or avengers or saviors; the day had absorbed them. Helplessly, they were only living. -- Stephen King
They promised me I could look all I want." It raised the mallet again. "Yes, they promise," Danny said, "but they lie. -- Stephen King
It's just that I was thinking you don't ride in that truck of yours, you wear it. -- Stephen King
She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet. -- Stephen King
And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire's time has come. -- Stephen King
This is dying - I know because I've done it before. -- Stephen King
Some things were better lost than found. -- Stephen King
Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever. -- Stephen King
I want to suggest that to write to your best abilities, it behooves you to construct your own toolbox and then build up enough muscle so you can carry it with you. Then, instead of looking at a hard job and getting discouraged, you will perhaps seize the correct tool and get immediately to work. -- Stephen King
The scent of THE MAN - the feel of THE MAN - had led to this place and then stopped. Where had he gone? -- Stephen King
His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere. -- Stephen King
Ohio plastics plant, had -- Stephen King
There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take. -- Stephen King
Only God gets things right the first time. -- Stephen King
The truth is that most writers are needy. -- Stephen King
He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief. -- Stephen King
Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours. -- Stephen King
It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black. -- Stephen King
Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky. -- Stephen King
Successful rebellions always begin in secret. -- Stephen King
At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back. -- Stephen King
Right now the Seiko claimed it was sixty-two minutes past forty on a Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday in both December and March. -- Stephen King
Because ka was like a fish, ka was like a sand dune, ka was like a wheel that didn't want to stop but only to roll on and on, crushing whatever might happen to be in its path. A wheel of many spokes. -- Stephen King
Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare. -- Stephen King
It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you. -- Stephen King
I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man. -- Stephen King
Sooner or later, if there isn't a turncoat, the people make one. -- Stephen King
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. -- Stephen King
The body is either stupid or infinitely wise, but in either case it is spared the terrible witchery of thought; it only knows how to stand its ground and fight until it can fight no more. -- Stephen King
There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there. -- Stephen King
Babineau was always intense, but these days he's downright weird. -- Stephen King
He woulda hired the Boston Strangler if he'd've worked for minimum wage. -- Stephen King
Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon. -- Stephen King
Beep-beep, Richie, -- Stephen King
It had been like swallowing a gust of October wind. -- Stephen King
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out. -- Stephen King
It's gonna be all right," he told her, not really believing it, knowing as every adult knows in his secret heart that nothing is really all right, ever. "It's gonna be all right. -- Stephen King
You may be a Founding Father and all that, but you still leave an occasional skidmark in your underdrawers. -- Stephen King
Because the past isn't just obdurate; it's in harmony with both itself and the future. -- Stephen King
Age looked at youth, and youth's applause first weakened, then died. -- Stephen King
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son. -- Stephen King
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. -- Stephen King
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy ... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. -- Stephen King
And then the world exploded. -- Stephen King
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. -- Stephen King
Kill him, you must kill him Jacky, and her, too. Because a real artist must suffer. Because each man kills the thing he loves. -- Stephen King
My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being ... -- Stephen King
And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go. -- Stephen King
hey bitch, you're never too old to rock and roll -- Stephen King
When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans. -- Stephen King
The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter. -- Stephen King
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? -- Stephen King
In his own way he recognized his madness, and that was the sort of thing mad people did, right enough. -- Stephen King
A man named Stephen King. Do you know that name? And saw by Cullum's eyes that he did. -- Stephen King
Eddie got in. Roland paused for a moment to tap his throat three times. Eddie had seen him perform this ritual before when about to cross open water, and reminded himself to ask about it. He never got the chance; before the question occurred to him again, death had slipped between them. -- Stephen King
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day. -- Stephen King
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. -- Stephen King
As the stranger came closer, Dud understood everything and welcomed it, and when the pain came, it was as sweet as silver, as green as still water at dark fathoms. -- Stephen King
A lawyer's answer ... so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow. -- Stephen King
moonshadow, tall -- Stephen King
95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do. -- Stephen King
And above [the three of] them, Old Star and Old Mother rose into their appointed places and stared at each other across the starry ruins of their ancient broken marriage. -- Stephen King
He didn't just dig me; he dug me the MOST. Nothing can compare to hearing something like that from a seventeen-year-old kid who looks like he might be fully awake for the first time in his academic career. -- Stephen King
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 bullshit. -- Stephen King
Don't swallow your man because if you do then you'll get fat because it has carbs -- Stephen King
Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. -- Stephen King
The color white is the absence of memory. -- Stephen King
Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember. -- Stephen King
I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along. -- Stephen King
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. -- Stephen King
Like the White Rabbit in Alice, I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date. They're following me, you see, but I needed to double back and talk to you. Busy-busy-busy! -- Stephen King
He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly. -- Stephen King
I can love you if you're a man, and I can love you if you're a hero- I guess, although for some reason that seems a lot harder- but I don't think I can love a vigilante. -- Stephen King
Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze. -- Stephen King
What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit. -- Stephen King
Still believe, I suppose, in the coming of the White and in finding a place to make a stand ... and defending that place to the death. -- Stephen King
I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark. -- Stephen King
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. -- Stephen King
They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none. -- Stephen King
The look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek. -- Stephen King
When it whoops, those rooms get as cold as a frigid woman with an ice cube up her works. -- Stephen King
The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted
the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say. -- Stephen King
The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on. -- Stephen King
End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching. -- Stephen King
When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped. -- Stephen King
You sure?" Steve asked. "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, you know. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
I was drunk and half killed with fuckin -- Stephen King
If you can't laugh when things go bad
laugh and put on a little carnival
then you're either dead or wishing you were. -- Stephen King
Every troublemaker's excuse! Put it up your bum with the rest of the dirt! -- Stephen King
I can see your dirtypillows. -- Stephen King
Tess exited YouTube, Binged Richard Widmark, and found what she expected, given -- Stephen King
If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy's head explodes. -- Stephen King
The nights are his, but in the daytime you will hound him and hound him until he takes fright and flees or until you drag him, staked and screaming, into the sunlight! -- Stephen King
I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself. -- Stephen King
Kill if you will, but command me nothing! -- Stephen King
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. -- Stephen King
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world -- Stephen King
in Eastern Europe computer privacy is like cleanliness in America: next to godliness. "So -- Stephen King
My own gut feeling is that everyone's psychic ... and it's so ingrained a part of us that we very rarely notice it. The talent may be largely preventative, and that keeps it from being noticed, too. -- Stephen King
A time will come, Casey had told him in those early white-knuckle days, when your mental defenses will fail and the only thing left standing between you and a drink will be your Higher Power. -- Stephen King
Come back here, kid! I'll blow you for free. Come back here! -- Stephen King
You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course ... but you don't have to. -- Stephen King
One either absorbs the grammatical principles of one's native language in conversation and in reading or one does not. What Sophomore English does (or tries to do) is little more than the naming of parts. -- Stephen King
Been taught as a toddler) - except whoever heard of four boys Going Number Two at the same time? -- Stephen King
Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream. -- Stephen King
It's the unanswered questions that makes it worth getting up in the morning. -- Stephen King
But it wasn't really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on. -- Stephen King
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage. -- Stephen King
The mind-reaction was beginning to settle in, slowing down his chain of thought by seeming to increase the connotations of every idea and every bit of sensory input. -- Stephen King
Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season. -- Stephen King
Guys like this Henry always pushed even the most unfunny joke two steps too far . . . then looked wounded and misunderstood when someone yelled at them. And it was always Wassa matter? and it was Can'tcha take a joke? and it was Why don'tcha lighten up a little? -- Stephen King
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. -- Stephen King
We'll do our business in the East Room. It's my favorite at this time of day. If you and I didn't know God is a profitable and self-sustaining construct of the worlds' churches, the morning light would be almost enough to make us believers again. -- Stephen King
The thoughts of DIVORCE hung over the kitchen table like a cloud full of black rain, pregnant, ready to burst. -- Stephen King
I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world. -- Stephen King
Goddam life, I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That's my goddam attitude, and I stick by it; this ain't a sad world unless you're sane. -- Stephen King
Beating heroin was child's play compared to beating your childhood. When -- Stephen King
Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret. -- Stephen King
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith. -- Stephen King
For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room ... -- Stephen King
Money can't buy off the lightning. -- Stephen King
Life was a wheel, and it always came back around. -- Stephen King
But never underestimate the American bourgeoisie's capacity to embrace fascism under the name of populism. -- Stephen King
Not being sure of things, he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast with no idea at all where they were going. -- Stephen King
The less you know, the more you could believe. -- Stephen King
It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you. -- Stephen King
To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex. -- Stephen King
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. -- Stephen King
This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward. -- Stephen King
God I am unlucky. I don't hate You, but I fear You are not my friend, nor any man's friend. -- Stephen King
He sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits. -- Stephen King
But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up in the sky overhead and the light turns a queer purple-yellow and the wind dies completely. -- Stephen King
The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been. -- Stephen King
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. -- Stephen King
And what about yellowback dogs who'd use children to kill the whole world from ambush, my friend? The whole universe?" The Weasel blinked at that, as if he'd expected no such reply. Perhaps any reply at all. "I had . . . my orders. -- Stephen King
Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed. -- Stephen King
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship. -- Stephen King
In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't. -- Stephen King
I know that," he said. "But it isn't just a piece of paper that makes a man. And it isn't just prison that breaks one, either. -- Stephen King
The shining was back, and strong. The question was, why now? -- Stephen King
You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter -- Stephen King
bass line and the cry of a pedal steel guitar, which always sounded to him like chrome teardrops. Even in happy songs. She -- Stephen King
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. -- Stephen King
The pain wasn't tidal. That was the lesson of the dream which was really a memory. The pain only appeared to come and go. The pain was like the piling, sometimes covered and sometimes visible, but always there. -- Stephen King
Two weeks later he was found dead on the bathroom floor with a bottle of Krazy Glue in one hand. He had used it to plug his nostrils and seal his mouth shut. -- Stephen King
Too late always comes too early. She -- Stephen King
Can an entire city be haunted? Haunted -- Stephen King
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. -- Stephen King
His kid brother had been smart enough to make something of himself in the big world; Ollie himself might have been smart enough to stay ahead of the bank loans and the credit cards, but not much more. -- Stephen King
You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify -- Stephen King
She said there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness. -- Stephen King
Richard Dawson must -- Stephen King
change. Eddie saw the leper, the mummy, the bird; he saw the werewolf, and a vampire whose teeth were Gillette Blue-Blades set at crazy angles like mirrors -- Stephen King
I like a woman who will laugh when you don't have to point her right at the joke, you know -- Stephen King
Hope you two boys can dig. There'll be some digging to do." "Graves?" Eddie asked, not sure if he was joking or not. "Graves come later." Roland looked up at the sky, but the clouds had advanced out of the west and stolen the stars. "Just remember, it's the winners who dig them. -- Stephen King
By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is.
Ev Hillman -- Stephen King
Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. -- Stephen King
The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy. -- Stephen King
Death was no less a miracle than birth. -- Stephen King
They called him Mir, which to these people meant the world beneath the world. -- Stephen King
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts. -- Stephen King
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower? -- Stephen King
Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. "You came!" Jake shouted. "You really came!" "I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came. -- Stephen King
Five police cars were parked in the yard, two drawn up nose-to-nose behind the car's back bumper, as if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie, and make a run for it. -- Stephen King
In God we trust," I said. "All others pay cash. -- Stephen King
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off. -- Stephen King
The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open -- Stephen King
Expansive," he says to the empty room, but it's more than that. "Outward. This guy writes outward. He learned with others. And wrote for others. -- Stephen King
Desert lore. Scripture in the wasteland. The resonance of lonely places. -- Stephen King
It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives. -- Stephen King
I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. -- Stephen King
- I am eternal. I am the Eater of Worlds. -- Stephen King
When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. By -- Stephen King
At night your thoughts have an unpleasant way of slipping their collars and running free. -- Stephen King
Panic bloomed in her mind and she seized it as a tool, compressing it to an edge with which to cut through her frightened immobility. -- Stephen King
Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. -- Stephen King
Writing fiction for money is a mug's game. -- Stephen King
The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright. -- Stephen King
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. -- Stephen King
Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground ... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world. -- Stephen King
Tell you something, my friend - if I worked hard and really wanted it, there might be a real Rembrandt on my wall someday.
Sure.
In a job like this, there is nowhere to go but up.
In a way, that's the scary part ... -- Stephen King
His chief interest was in reading fiction, then trying to analyze what he had read, fitting it into a larger pattern. -- Stephen King
Remember, cool is not a way of life; it's a state of being. Like your height. I can't help being 6'3, and I can't help being cool. -- Stephen King
There seems to be no air in the air she breaths. -- Stephen King
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation. -- Stephen King
He had stopped drinking, but the need to be free had been just as great ... -- Stephen King
He was a beefy man with fluffy popcorn hair, white shirt, and dark green chinos. -- Stephen King
I have personal experience, you might say. I know how one cowardly decision leads to another . . . and another . . . and another . . . until it's too late to turn around, too late to change. Mr. -- Stephen King
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. -- Stephen King
Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was possible until you were rudely pushed out into the screaming middle of things like a newborn child skydiving chutelessly out of his mother's womb? -- Stephen King
A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail.
Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father! -- Stephen King
A King without heirs makes everybody nervous, especially when the King is fifty and balding. -- Stephen King
Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police. -- Stephen King
Time's the thief of memory: that one he knew. -- Stephen King
We're like drunks in a barroom. No one's listening because everyone is too busy thinking about what they're going to say next, and absolutely prove that the current speaker is so full of shit he squeaks. -- Stephen King
Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me -- Stephen King
Could consistently tell me no without making me angry. He was a genius of no. -- Stephen King
The world's just a hospice with fresh air. -- Stephen King
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity -- Stephen King
I remember thinkin theworld still felt as if it was made of glass, and I had to be damned careful not to slip on it n cut myself when I had to let go ... -- Stephen King
The object Rusty found on Black Ridge looked so much like his Apple TV addon that he at first thought it actually was one ... only modified, of course, so it could hold an entire town prisoner as well as broadcast The Little Mermaid to your television via Wi-Fi and in HD. -- Stephen King
One can often trace the sources of a brand personality-here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent. -- Stephen King
The subconscious leaves its fingerprints, but there's a stranger down there, too. A hell of a weird guy who knows a hell of a lot. (Ballad of the Flexible Bullet) -- Stephen King
We were singing 'We Are the Champions' for the twentieth time or so," she said from the hospital in Bowling Green, where most of the survivors were taken. -- Stephen King
It was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong. -- Stephen King
Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. -- Stephen King
Hear me, I beg. We say thankee. -- Stephen King
I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life. -- Stephen King
As if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie, -- Stephen King
Throat, and pulled the trigger. Then -- Stephen King
Do you serve towels with your showers, Stuttering Bill? -- Stephen King
Very funny, and he laughed hard. Am I really stinko? On just three sips? He didn't think so, but he was definitely high. No more. Enough was enough. "Drink responsibly," he told the empty restaurant, and laughed. He'd hang out here for -- Stephen King
Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer? -- Stephen King
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives ... -- Stephen King
Pete roars with laughter and asks if Hodges knows what the blond said when she opened the box of Cheerios. Hodges says he does not. Pete makes big amazed eyes and says, Oh! Look at the cute little doughnut seeds! -- Stephen King
People assume any twentieth-century white male writer must be an alcoholic. -- Stephen King
Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of your mind and put it up there on the screen. -- Stephen King
In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught. -- Stephen King
He watched groups of children in the play yard move their lips, raise and lower their teeth like white drawbridges, dance their tongues in the ritual mating of speech. -- Stephen King
Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said. -- Stephen King
Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions. -- Stephen King
It has a way of eroding barriers-that famous Yankee reticence-which would otherwise be impregnable. -- Stephen King
One of those divine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs strung with drops of dew. -- Stephen King
The superflu we can charge off to the stupidity of the human race. It doesn't matter if we did it or the Russians, or the Latvians. -- Stephen King
One of the factors that made us powerful in those years was being raised with the same ideas, one of which was that you didn't ask for help unless you absolutely had to, and maybe not even then ... -- Stephen King
What do we do if that happens? -- Stephen King
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. -- Stephen King
It wasn't the execution per se; except for the warden's bizarre blue shirt, it had seemed as prosaic as getting a tetanus shot or a shingles vaccination. That was actually the horror of it. Something -- Stephen King
On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page. -- Stephen King
The best thing about being old is you don't have to worry about dieing young. -- Stephen King
To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist. -- Stephen King
He was amazingly light, as dehydrated as a November leaf from their long walk through the desert. -- Stephen King
I have never been what you'd call a crying man. -- Stephen King
Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you'll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That's not pessimism talking, just logic. -- Stephen King
I was just thinking that long life brings strange companions. -- Stephen King
If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show. He -- Stephen King
The interesting pyrotechnics of the day had played a part - how could you write while pocket thunderstorms kept coming and going over the water? -- Stephen King
If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down and smoke that baby. II -- Stephen King
Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM. -- Stephen King
I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you. -- Stephen King
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye. -- Stephen King
But that's enough. Fun is fun and done is done. Turn out their lights, beautiful. -- Stephen King
There is a skull in every man, and I tell you there is a skull in the lives of all men. They saw it that day, those men. They saw what sometimes grins behind the smile. -- Stephen King
I work until beer o'clock. -- Stephen King
He was no longer strictly a man, if he had ever been one. He was like an onion, slowly peeling away one layer at a time, only it was the trappings of humanity that seemed to be peeling away: organized reflection, memory, possibly even free will ... if there ever had been such a thing. -- Stephen King
Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found. -- Stephen King
him some baby aspirin and let him color while -- Stephen King
I think people are extremely hard to live with when they have a talent they aren't able to use. -- Stephen King
A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. -- Stephen King
Zalia felt cold terror squeeze her heart. And yet buried in it, warm, was that hope. -- Stephen King
She helped me find my heart when I thought my heart was gone. -- Stephen King
I was lost in the dark and you found me. I was hot - so hot - and you gave me ice. -- Stephen King
As Orwell's pigs might have said, blue jeans good, new dress better. -- Stephen King
Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters. -- Stephen King
perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing. -- Stephen King
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing. -- Stephen King
The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones. -- Stephen King
Every now and then a perverse downdraft would make the smoke whirl and puff toward him and he breathed some of it in.
It built dreams in the same way that a small irritant may build a pearl in an oyster. -- Stephen King
If he came upon us burning in the street, I don't think he'd piss on us to put us out. -- Stephen King
Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts. -- Stephen King
It was one of those perfect summer days which, in a world where everything was on track and on the beam, you would never forget. -- Stephen King
The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one. In my prime, I would have corked it with my thumb and then eaten you alive. Preferably by the pool of Le Meridien in Monte Carlo, with an admiring audience to applaud my frontside and backside efforts. -- Stephen King
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing- -- Stephen King
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. -- Stephen King
That afternoon I began expanding my notes. -- Stephen King
She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.
Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was, -- Stephen King
... it's always wise to check your maybes. -- Stephen King
And then the car was beside him, not idling but panting like a deadly animal which may or may not be tamed. -- Stephen King
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. -- Stephen King
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. -- Stephen King
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. -- Stephen King
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. -- Stephen King
Florida's full of old people-they don't call it God's waiting room for nothing-but precious few of em grew up here. -- Stephen King
Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska. -- Stephen King
But he just pushed her away and said, 'Pokhoda, cyka!' Walk, bitch. She did. They went off down toward the bus stop. And that was it." "You speak Russian?" "No, but I have a good ear and a computer. -- Stephen King
Shake the hand that shook the world. -- Stephen King
Something lived in there, all right. He could smell it, a stench that made him think of damp plaster and moldering sofas and ancient mattresses rotting beneath half-liquid coats of mildew. It was familiar, that smell. -- Stephen King
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. -- Stephen King
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. -- Stephen King
Would go on a mad Parcheesi jag at Richie Tozier's house, making blockades, sending each other back with great abandon, deliberating exactly how to split the roll of the dice while rain -- Stephen King
Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through the dirt on Richie's cheeks.
'Except maybe for love,' Ben said.
'And desire,' Beverly said. -- Stephen King
I don't know what comes next. Mourners please omit flowers, probably, and for all of us. But I don't care. -- Stephen King
You did yourself ill to feel well of those to whom ill must eventually be done. -- Stephen King
...you rarely get more than one chance in this world. -- Stephen King
But of course it had hurt. It had hurt before, in the worst, rupturing way, knowing there would be no more you but the universe would roll on just the same, unharmed and unhampered. -- Stephen King
Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear -- Stephen King
A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful. -- Stephen King
Gone to Kansas City, Nick thought. For all I know, that could be it, too. Everybody left on the poor sad planet picked up by the Hand of God and either rocked in the everlasting harms of Same or set down again in Kansas City. -- Stephen King
May you live long, but not in good health. -- Stephen King
some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright.... -- Stephen King
Could she lay hope to rest or did she have to carry it yet awhile longer? -- Stephen King
They came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die. -- Stephen King
A man's heart is stonier than the gravel he walks on. -- Stephen King
I feel...I don't know...like a bottle of soda that's been shaken up. Do you know what I want? I want you to take me inside, and then take the cap off. -- Stephen King
There was a lot of talk about old days and old times, the kind of chatter that's fabulously interesting to those who were there and stupendously boring to those who weren't. -- Stephen King
It'll be all right, Clay. Really." "So you say, but you have a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur." "That's true," Tom said, "but they're balanced out by poor self-image and ego menstruation at roughly six week intervals ... -- Stephen King
We are the True Knot," they responded. "What is tied may never be untied. -- Stephen King
Topeka Lutheran and Topeka Technical College are also closed, as is KU at Lawrence. -- Stephen King
Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies. -- Stephen King
You reading this have undoubtedly met yours (or will); I met mine, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's got my address. He's a mean guy, a Bad Lieutenant, the sworn enemy of goofery, fuckery, pride, ambition, loud music, and all things nineteen. But -- Stephen King
The crazy people of the world ... shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least. -- Stephen King
This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back - -- Stephen King
The lawn of Placerville High School is a very good one. It does not fuck around. -- Stephen King
I, Georgie, am Mr. Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Pennywise, meet George Denbrough. George, meet Pennywise. And now we know each other. I'm not a stranger to you, and you're not a stranger to me. Kee-rect? " George -- Stephen King
They float, " it growled, "they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too - " George's -- Stephen King
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling. -- Stephen King
The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory. -- Stephen King
In a book, all would have gone according to plan ... but life was so fucking untidy - what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters? -- Stephen King
He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped. -- Stephen King
What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV. -- Stephen King
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead) ... -- Stephen King
Those aren't bags under your eyes, they're suitcases. -- Stephen King
Just thought you might like to know that there's a little kid playing Freddy Fuckaround at the Mile 81 rest area. You know, where the Burger King used to be? -- Stephen King
Five hundred smacks? On the Yankees? When the Braves've got Spahn and Burdette? Not to mention Hank Aaron and Steady Eddie Mathews? -- Stephen King
It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. It burned down ten years ago. The caretaker burned it down. He was crazy. Everybody in town said so. But never mind: he's dead. -- Stephen King
For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! -- Stephen King
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them. -- Stephen King
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon. -- Stephen King
Go on in, Eddie," Jack said as he passed. "After all, there are other worlds than these and that fucking train rolls through all of them. -- Stephen King
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves. -- Stephen King
Close your eyes and click your heals three times ... because there's no place like Dome. -- Stephen King
Some things it don't pay to be curious about. -- Stephen King
Putting things off only makes them worse, cara mia. -- Stephen King
Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains - because they're there. -- Stephen King
His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance. -- Stephen King
College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood, -- Stephen King
To Nick's mind, a corpse was just a thing, no different than a chair or typewriter or a rug. A corpse was just an inanimate thing which filled space. -- Stephen King
The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off. -- Stephen King
Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life. -- Stephen King
Only a silly person would try to start a good work with a bad tool. -- Stephen King
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. -- Stephen King
There are no thoughts like our thoughts in their brains, no feelings like our feelings in their hearts -- Stephen King
Her face was slack with decay, the lower half slewed to one side, her grin wider than ever. It was a knowing grin, and why not? The dead understand everything. She was surrounded by her loyal court. -- Stephen King
Yet to give over one's honor for that reason was so easy, wasn't it? To excuse the fall of virtue by invoking all-powerful ka. -- Stephen King
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too - everyone says so - but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be, you know. -- Stephen King
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. -- Stephen King
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows -- Stephen King
By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'. -- Stephen King
I want him to know the game is over. No more Castles. The real gunslingers are here. Let's see if he can deal with them. -- Stephen King
I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. -- Stephen King
A person's never too old for stories, Bill. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them. -- Stephen King
Sometimes parents needed to be protected. -- Stephen King
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. -- Stephen King
Writing is the act of finding out what I think. -- Stephen King
Which leads us to discuss if, deep down, Edgar Freemantle has decided that when the time comes, he's just going to - in the words of my misspent youth - cry fuck it and crawl in the bucket. -- Stephen King
All you need to do is hold on tight... and believe -- Stephen King
God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. -- Stephen King
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature. -- Stephen King
Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh. -- Stephen King
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. -- Stephen King
But nothin lasts, I guess. Only the love of the Lord. -- Stephen King
On the subject of love at first sight, I'm with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time. -- Stephen King
I don't want your apology, least of all for being afraid," he said. "Without fear, what would we be? Mad dogs with foam on our muzzles and shit drying on our hocks. -- Stephen King
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. -- Stephen King
If it looks like an alien relic bought at a junk-shop or yard sale where you can hardly remember stopping, you're ready. -- Stephen King
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen
if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us. -- Stephen King
The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge. -- Stephen King
A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman. -- Stephen King
The carpeting on the stair risers caught, racing up to the first-floor level as if to tell dreadful good news. -- Stephen King
There's a Reason Cell Rhymes with Hell -- Stephen King
Me go! let me go and you can have everything you've ever wanted - money, fame, fortune, -- Stephen King
No more obsessive writing, either, accumulating notebook after notebook like little piles of rabbit turds scattered along a woodland trail. -- Stephen King
What she said was, "Do you want tea?" "Yes. A cup of tea would be good. -- Stephen King
No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead
on the morning of October 6;
no one knew it was.
Like the bodies of previous days
it retained every semblace of life -- Stephen King
If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're pretty well done. -- Stephen King
In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different? -- Stephen King
Want a Coke?" Abra asked. "Sugar solves lots of problems, that's what I think. -- Stephen King
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight. -- Stephen King
Chances of the Jews and Palestinians uniting to build the first interfaith space station are roughly equal. -- Stephen King
Real loneliness was a smeary red: the color of the taillights of the car ahead of you reflected on wet hot-top in a driving rain. -- Stephen King
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. -- Stephen King
I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts. -- Stephen King
The entrance ramp had been blocked by an overturned semi. Bright-burning flares had been scattered around it like birthday candles on some idiot child's cake. -- Stephen King
I wasn't ever going to play Carnegie Hall, or arenas with the E Street Band, but I did still play - plenty - and had work I liked and was good at. If a man or woman wants more, I often told myself, that man or woman is tempting the gods. -- Stephen King
She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar. -- Stephen King
C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks. -- Stephen King
And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside It's homicidal endless formless hungry being. -- Stephen King
It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest. -- Stephen King
For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on. -- Stephen King
The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat. -- Stephen King
What mattered was they were never getting out.
He was safe.
That was what he thought then. Of course, he also thought he would never have a drink, not after seeing what it had done to his father.
Sometimes we just get it wrong. -- Stephen King
This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time. -- Stephen King
Every now and then there's a small scream from the part that thinks it's still alive. It will stop soon. -- Stephen King
As W.H. Auden pointed out, the Reaper takes the rolling in money, the screamingly funny, and those who are very well hung. But that isn't where Auden starts his list. He starts with the innocent young. -- Stephen King
Only ailments didn't work that way, did they? You couldn't placate them with sacrifices. -- Stephen King
To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite? -- Stephen King
You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves. -- Stephen King
Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see. -- Stephen King
The folks who end up living the lives they expected are more often than not the ones who end up takin sleepin pills or stickin the barrel of a gun in their mouths qnd pullin the trigger. -- Stephen King
The way I look at it, checkbook love is better than no love at all. -- Stephen King
Every step outside one's own door invites the world (perhaps even the universe), -- Stephen King
But if God made the world, then God made the drink. And that is also His will. Ka, Roland thought. -- Stephen King
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights. -- Stephen King
The truth is in the details. -- Stephen King
He puts his pizza and his soda on the worktable -- Stephen King
,but at least there were books. Books were escape. -- Stephen King
Mistuh Norton, he daid," the man in black intoned, giving the words a sardonic little twist. -- Stephen King
The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you. -- Stephen King
Right now all he wanted was to get out of this awful place where reality had worn so thin. -- Stephen King
His love for his wife and son was not beautiful - no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man who balled his socks before his wife - but it was sturdy and unswerving. -- Stephen King
That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras. -- Stephen King
Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a Face forming in lines of fire. -- Stephen King
Greed in a good cause is still greed. -- Stephen King
What's feeding in Derry? What's feeding on Derry? -- Stephen King
Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, Write. -- Stephen King
If brains was black powder he couldn't blow his own nose. It's a pity the things you see when you ain't got a gun. -- Stephen King
Ware the man who fakes a limp. -- Stephen King
He was having a seizure of projectile vomiting. This was not considered a sign of good health in medical circles. -- Stephen King
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. -- Stephen King
Because creative people aren't always in charge. And when they do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge. They're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut, yelling Wheeeee. -- Stephen King
Do the dead sing? Do they love? -- Stephen King
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. -- Stephen King
Back then I was dropping acid regularly, and I lost all sorts of stuff. Including, for short periods, my mind. -- Stephen King
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second. -- Stephen King
Morris's face is melting. He shrieks and begins hugging the blazing, dissolving remnants of Rothstein's work to his burning chest. -- Stephen King
Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so - pardon the pun - so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist. -- Stephen King
Take your time. Get serene. -- Stephen King
...and I still feel that hate today, when so many other feelings have been burned out of my heart. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the end, even if you had a pretty good idea what the end was going to be, and he was so full of shit he squeaked. -- Stephen King
I think I get the picture." She shakes her head in dull wonder. "It's as if the guy knew -- Stephen King
For your family, you do all that you can. -- Stephen King
I always told myself I didn't do it because I don't hold with hitting women. I still don't. But when a person-man or woman-turns into a dog and begins to bite, someone has to shy it off. -- Stephen King
What a sour little doodad the telephone is, and what little good news we get from it! -- Stephen King
His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles. -- Stephen King
Oy opened his eyes - they were bright in the darkness - then winked at Jake. After that, he appeared to go back to sleep. Jake -- Stephen King
It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn't Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped. -- Stephen King
Jack stood in the dining room just outside the batwing doors leading into the Colorado Lounge, his head cocked, listening. He was smiling faintly. Around him, he could hear the Overlook Hotel coming to life. It -- Stephen King
Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you. -- Stephen King
Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do. -- Stephen King
I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that. -- Stephen King
Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too. -- Stephen King
What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do. -- Stephen King
She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt! -- Stephen King
Sometimes King Laugh knocks and you're one of those people who can't keep him
out, Peter said. -- Stephen King
I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow - my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it. -- Stephen King
Winnie, but I don't believe in sin." He smiled. It was a benevolent smile. Also unpleasant: sheep lips, wolf teeth. "That's fine. But sin believes in you. -- Stephen King
The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end. -- Stephen King
When you're travelling far, it's best to travel light. -- Stephen King
Got more patches on her than a pair of welfare overalls. -- Stephen King
You only stop meltin the snow under where you're layin when you're dead. -- Stephen King
That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe. -- Stephen King
All I'm focusing on is pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down. -- Stephen King
Villages were burning under unknown constellations, people were screaming, and that touch on his neck . . . that awful touch -- Stephen King
It's not easy to learn a new existence...
...but if you're desperate enough...
...and mean enough...
...it's possible. -- Stephen King
You know the price of selling out the future, Sully-John? You can never really leave the past. -- Stephen King
They were drugged, stone in love, and to them, every scar on the face of the world was a beauty-mark. Twice, -- Stephen King
The mystery of the universe is not time but size. -- Stephen King
Hearts were made to be broken and minds were made to be changed... -- Stephen King
Roland nodded. "And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity." He paused, then said: "I always feel sick afterward. Like -- Stephen King
And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity. -- Stephen King
Thank you again for coming with me, and rest you well. But, being who I am and what I am, I cannot find it in my heart to wish you pleasant dreams . . . -- Stephen King
JUNE 14TH HEAVY METAL MANIA!! JUDAS PRIEST IRON MAIDEN BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE OR AT ANY TICKETRON OUTLET -- Stephen King
Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented. -- Stephen King
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders. -- Stephen King
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it. -- Stephen King
I kept telling myself: Cold roast beef. Cold roast beef. Cold roast beef. -- Stephen King
I loved you, Jake. -- Stephen King
Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. -- Stephen King
Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, 'You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.' -- Stephen King
Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. -- Stephen King
Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely. -- Stephen King
I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. -- Stephen King
Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear. -- Stephen King
You didn't get sober to be stupid, Danny. Keep it in mind the next time you start listening to that itty-bitty shitty committee inside your head. -- Stephen King
Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake. -- Stephen King
Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up. "Take -- Stephen King
I'm not sure men know how to talk about women in any meaningful way. -- Stephen King
you know how some women that age can be really beautiful?" "Yes," I said. I was thinking of Christy's mother, who didn't fully come into her looks until she was in her fifties. -- Stephen King
- run. Sorry, but I got to run. Sorry, Danny ole kid ole doc, but I got to run. It's sure been fun, you son of a gun, but I got to hurry, I got to run. -- Stephen King
Why does she have to be such a ... such a ... "
"Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son."
"Such a bitch! -- Stephen King
There was an indefinable something that spoke of the sea in the not-too-great distance. -- Stephen King
Philosophers have debated the meaning of life for centuries, rarely coming to the same conclusion. -- Stephen King
Is he a Catholic?" "He is now," Ben said somberly. -- Stephen King
Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are. -- Stephen King
Eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, -- Stephen King
By 11:00 A.M. I needed coffee desperately. A gallon or so seemed about right. -- Stephen King
Because it may be fragile, but I think it's also immortal. We -- Stephen King
Wonder. As I wonder if somewhere out in this storm there is a clown selling balloons tonight. -- Stephen King
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing. -- Stephen King
The door banged open, letting in a raucous flood of the Oak Ridge Boys. -- Stephen King
Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion, -- Stephen King
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. -- Stephen King
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. -- Stephen King
This was better. I don't know if I could have gone at her that way if I wasn't pretending to be Daenerys in the Game of Thrones books, but I think so. -- Stephen King
You must be human ... how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse. -- Stephen King
But people love a hypocrite, you know - they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you. -- Stephen King
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. -- Stephen King
Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went. -- Stephen King
Not all are called to the way of the sword or the gun or the ship, but all serve ka. -- Stephen King
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. -- Stephen King
Mike's breath caught, as if on a thorn. -- Stephen King
This is not a bad life. -- Stephen King
It's a tough life if you don't weaken. -- Stephen King
Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband -- Stephen King
He who takes a tiger by the tail dare not let go." A -- Stephen King
My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking. -- Stephen King
The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about which Louis had read in books, but which he had never experienced until now. -- Stephen King
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. -- Stephen King
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies. -- Stephen King
But that's not a very original idea, is it? It's really just a platitude ... sort of like a Florida sunset, Nevertheless, it happens to be the truth, and the truth deserves to be spoken ... if you can say it in a new way, I tried to put it in a picture. -- Stephen King
Beautiful young presidents died and beautiful young presidents lived, beautiful young women lived and then they died, but the broken sewer pipe beneath the courtyard of the old Worumbo mill was apparently eternal. -- Stephen King
The ever-popular conspiracy theory. No home should be without one. -- Stephen King
That was when you decided caring hurt too much and decided it'd be safer just to live for yourself -- Stephen King
What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again. -- Stephen King
What's a self-respecting amusement park without a ghost? -- Stephen King
She put on the teapot and laid a couple of Oreos on a plate for Danny in case he decided to come up while she was lying down. -- Stephen King
Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full -- Stephen King
The arguments against insanity fall through with a soft shirring sound;
these are the sounds of dead voices on dead records
floating down the broken shaft of memory.
When I turn to you to ask if you remember,
When I turn to you in our bed -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
Famous women keep their same names even after they get married because their names are their bread and butter. -- Stephen King
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. -- Stephen King
The past is obdurate. -- Stephen King
A week and a half later two feet of snow lay white and crisp and even on the grounds of the Overlook Hotel. -- Stephen King
Of course you will, Hodges thinks. You might think you know what you're risking, but you don't. When you're seventeen, the future is strictly theoretical. -- Stephen King
Also, I suppose I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive, after all. -- Stephen King
He'd sent his cock on its exploring way up more damp and cozy cracks than Jonas had ever seen in his life, and Jonas was twice his age. -- Stephen King
Fiction is the truth in the lie. -- Stephen King
To the loving eye, even smallpox scars are beautiful. -- Stephen King
It was, he thought, fine to be young and in love. Even in the graveyard which this world has become, it was fine. -- Stephen King
Frankie's a puke." She -- Stephen King
What's been tried once had been tried once before ... and before ... and before ... -- Stephen King
A broken spoon may become a fork. -- Stephen King
They were drugged, stone in love. To them every scar on the face of the world was a beauty mark. -- Stephen King
There was just so much poison inside me... -- Stephen King
Friends and neighbors, -- Stephen King
That's what a shrink is for; friends and neighbors; their job is to fuck the mentally disturbed and make them pregnant with sanity. -- Stephen King
Jail,' the big cop said in his stuffy, liquid voice. 'Where anything you bray will be abused against you in a sort of caw. -- Stephen King
She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown. -- Stephen King
Elementary, my dear fucksticks -- Stephen King
Everything is better when it shits on a ritz. -- Stephen King
The things of the world fell by the wayside, you lost your speed and your eyesight and your fucking Electric Boogaloo, but literature was eternal, -- Stephen King
Still, he thought, it's an adult's body we got here, no question about that. There's the pot belly that comes with a few too many good steaks, a few too many bottles of Kirin beer, a few too many poolside lunches where you had the Reuben or the French dip instead of the diet plate. -- Stephen King
As the whore said to the bashful sailor, "It ain't how much you've got, honey, it's how you use it." Some -- Stephen King
Who the fuck're you?" he asked, only it came out Hoo-a fuck-a you? Al hadn't given me detailed instructions on how to answer questions, so I said what seemed safest. "None of your fucking business." "Well fuck you, too." "Fine," I said. "We are in accord." "Huh? -- Stephen King
Zombies are the new vampire. -- Stephen King
Wanting and hating and fearing . . . and misery. As if life itself had fallen on her like stones, all at the age of three. -- Stephen King
It seems to me that none of this stuff is mine, that I'm nothing but Roland of Gilead's fucking secretary. I know that's stupid, but a part of me sort of believes it. -- Stephen King
The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for God's sake, and what greater agent of the norm is there in this fucked - up country? -- Stephen King
Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. -- Stephen King
I'd like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing. -- Stephen King
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. -- Stephen King
She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile. -- Stephen King
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that. -- Stephen King
Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate and colourful. If you hesitate, and cogitate, you will come up with another word...but it probably won't be as good as your first one, or as close to what you really mean. -- Stephen King
Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. -- Stephen King
It looked to her like an image out of a Steven Spielberg science fiction movie. -- Stephen King
The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of. -- Stephen King
I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now. -- Stephen King
The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons. -- Stephen King
And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it. -- Stephen King
Life's a great thing, but if you live long enough, it wears out before it runs out. -- Stephen King
But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . . -- Stephen King
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. -- Stephen King
I CANNOT READILY DIFFERENTIATE FACT FROM SUPERSTITION. IN FACT, THERE SEEMS TO BE VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO AT THE PRESENT TIME. IT IS VERY SILLY THAT IT SHOULD BE SO - NOT TO MENTION RUDE - AND I AM SURE IT HAS CONTRIBUTED TO MY OWN SPIRITUAL MALAISE. -- Stephen King
But storytelling always changes time. At least it does in my world. -- Stephen King
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. -- Stephen King
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. -- Stephen King
So sometimes she wondered, in a distracted sort of way, where she was when she wasn't here, but mostly her needs were too sudden and pressing for any extended contemplation, and she simply fulfilled what needed to be fulfilled, did what needed to be done. -- Stephen King
The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing. -- Stephen King
I started after him ... and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town. -- Stephen King
He went to the dresser, got the camera and the last flashcube, and gave Danny a closed thumb-and-forefinger circle. Danny smiled and gave it back with his good hand. -- Stephen King
imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But -- Stephen King
Case closed, game over, zip up your fly. -- Stephen King
I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss. -- Stephen King
I don't need to give you a pimple-by-pimple, skirt-by-skirt rundown. We all remember one or more high school losers, after all; if I describe mine, it freezes out yours, and I lose a little bit of the bond of understanding I want to forge between us. -- Stephen King
Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession -- Stephen King
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. -- Stephen King
But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on. -- Stephen King
His place was not honored, as the true opener of the way; he was only another of the ten thousand cheering extras, a doggy rolling over and sitting up on command. -- Stephen King
A good life is never wasted. -- Stephen King
Laugh-and-the-whole-world-laughs-with-you type of thing. -- Stephen King
When you fall, Barry, it's going to be like the fall of Babel in the desert. The people who see you go down will talk about it for years. Man, you'll shake the dishes right off the shelves - -- Stephen King
Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing. -- Stephen King
You know the three Ages of Man, don't you?" Hodges asks. Pete shakes his head, grinning. "Youth, middle age, and you look fuckin terrific. -- Stephen King
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time. -- Stephen King
...I'm ANGRY. I know life is hard, I think EVERYONE knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to BITE?
Why are there no second choices? -- Stephen King
He understood very little about this strange situation, and to act in a situation one does not understand is to invite the most terrible consequences. -- Stephen King
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret. -- Stephen King
Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any. -- Stephen King
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That's 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book - something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh. -- Stephen King
Resurrection ... ah, there's a word
(that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it). -- Stephen King
A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID. -- Stephen King
It's a problem, isn't it?" "It's an opportunity," Roland corrected. -- Stephen King
They lived in fearful perplexity and passed it off as imagination -- Stephen King
if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you. -- Stephen King
The world's most brilliant confabulators are in asylums. -- Stephen King
Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often spelled Gates, but you know what I mean. -- Stephen King
I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them, I've noticed. -- Stephen King
There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart. -- Stephen King
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. -- Stephen King
I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don't want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac. -- Stephen King
I never trained David. I friended him. -- Stephen King
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers
a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through. -- Stephen King
I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. -- Stephen King
Here is another one ready to die for you, Roland. What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many? -- Stephen King
To him those last few crumbs, sucked slowly onto the tongue from between the tines of the fork, always seemed like the sweetest part of the slice. -- Stephen King
Hair Butch waxed so heavily that it seemed to scream up from his skull. -- Stephen King
I just happen to think love is very important, only love will get us through this, good connections; it's hate against us, worse, it's emptiness. -- Stephen King
And when she talks of Carrie White her face takes on an odd pinched look that is more like Lovecraft out of Arkham than Kerouac out of Southern Cal. -- Stephen King
Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. -- Stephen King
VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.
'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD. -- Stephen King
The sunlight pouring in the east window came through her lids and made a dark red beet soup that moved with the rhythm of her heart ... -- Stephen King
It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive. -- Stephen King
No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer. -- Stephen King
I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond. -- Stephen King
A man who lies about beer makes enemies -- Stephen King
I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture! -- Stephen King
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not. -- Stephen King
In the dark, all cats are gray . . . and to the blind, they're no color at all. -- Stephen King
There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there's a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall. -- Stephen King
Is there any phrase more ominous than you need to see exactly what you've done? I couldn't think of one offhand. -- Stephen King
You could help me by shutting up, Eddie said, and the grill spoke no more. He found himself wondering if he had offended it, then wondered if perhaps he should kill himself and spare the world a problem. -- Stephen King
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting. -- Stephen King
The most terrifying thing was how trusting people were. -- Stephen King
The reason fantasy fiction remains such a vital and necessary genre is that it lets us talk about such things in a way realistic fiction cannot. -- Stephen King
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark -- Stephen King
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again. -- Stephen King
Is he immortal do you think? Because I've seen much in my years, and heard rumors of much more, but never of a man or woman who lived forever."
" I don't think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is write the right story. Because some stories do live forever -- Stephen King
Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . . -- Stephen King
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. -- Stephen King
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew. -- Stephen King
Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end ... and knowing there's so much worth saving. -- Stephen King
When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.'
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go. -- Stephen King
But let me tell you something, Harrigan - sooner or later City Hall is gonna catch up to your action, and they're gonna render unto your scofflaw holy-rollin' ass. I only hope I'm there when it happens -- Stephen King
You need to take out the stuff that's just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler! -- Stephen King
In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of. -- Stephen King
Love is what moves the world, I've always thought ... it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down ... bring them low ... and make them crawl ... -- Stephen King
It pulled out of the dirt lot, kicking up a rooster-tail of dust behind it. The taillights dwindled away to red points down Highway 63, and the Nebraska nightwind began to pull the hanging dust apart. -- Stephen King
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed? -- Stephen King
But to a dog, the stench of a decaying rat probably smells like Chanel No. 5. -- Stephen King
But the lobby was dark and oh so full of shadows. -- Stephen King
When I made pictures, I fell in love with the world. When I made pictures, I felt whole. -- Stephen King
Marriage is referred to in the bible as "mystical union," and it really is in the sense that two people who don't know each other get together. I'm always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don't find out. -- Stephen King
She was smiling the way you do when you see an old friend. Or, perhaps, something good to eat. -- Stephen King
Now wholly in the lap of whatever god has been appointed the job of protecting small boys. -- Stephen King
She would thrust these thoughts away, miserable and horrified, wondering if there was any lower limit to the human spirit at its nasty, calculating, self-serving worst, not wanting to know. -- Stephen King
If your ass falls off, put it in a bag and take it to the meeting. -- Stephen King
God's a connoisseur of fragile things, and decorates His cloudy outlook with ornaments of finest glass. -- Stephen King
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work. -- Stephen King
He saw her seldom now, and the phantom of cradle songs had almost faded from his brain. -- Stephen King
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. -- Stephen King
I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over. -- Stephen King
Like shit, change happens. -- Stephen King
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic. -- Stephen King
A cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by. -- Stephen King
Yet the laughter had a tinge of uneasiness about it, because this business about nineteen had gotten a trifle weird. -- Stephen King
You still owe a debt. Pay it. -- Stephen King
It always seems to be cool in the houses of old people, have you noticed? -- Stephen King
I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle -- Stephen King
Our dog had an ingrown tail, we had to X-ray him to find out if he was happy. I -- Stephen King
Sleep is often denied to those with secrets. -- Stephen King
Oversized retail operations of the sort that are called "outlets" (as if they were sewer drains rather than shopping locations). -- Stephen King
It was the last town in what was then a civilized country. Once Tim asked his father what civilized meant. "Taxes," Big Ross said, and laughed - but not in a funny way. -- Stephen King
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. -- Stephen King
Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground. -- Stephen King
Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves out a little more. -- Stephen King
Club em, if they want a club, Victor said. Belch uttered a thunderous heehaw of laughter at this. Thump, thump, thump, overhead. The cap moved up and down a little more this time. Surely they would notice it; ordinary ground just didn't have that kind of give. -- Stephen King
I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free. -- Stephen King
And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing let's pretend -- Stephen King
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it. -- Stephen King
Maybe that's one of the ways you recognize really lonely people . . . they can always think of something neat to do on rainy days. You can always call them up. They're always home. Fucking always. For -- Stephen King
I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them. -- Stephen King
... When a person stops changing, stops feeling, they die ... -- Stephen King
I'm busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest; wish -- Stephen King
America has become a country full of big men in little cars. -- Stephen King
Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed -- Stephen King
His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it. -- Stephen King
And when I couldn't get high, some of the days were a hundred hours long. -- Stephen King
What comes in when daylight leaves is a kind of certainty: that beneath the skin there is a secret, some mystery both black and bright. You feel this mystery in every breath, you see it in every shadow, you expect to plunge into it at every turn of a step. -- Stephen King
For months - sometimes even years, as I tried to explain to you - time hardly seems to exist. Then everything comes in a gasp. -- Stephen King
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie. -- Stephen King
They were American people and there was a kind of dirty, compelling romance about them whenever they were in groups - never -- Stephen King
He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought it had detected) some nasty interior beast and had locked it in a cell with a steel door. -- Stephen King
The most important things are hardest to say, because words diminish them. -- Stephen King
I am in trouble here. This woman is not right. -- Stephen King
The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you. -- Stephen King
Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way. -- Stephen King
I'm going to put them in the slam, my friend, and if I hear they got their puckery little assholes cored down there at Thomaston, I'm gonna send them cards saying I hope whoever did it had AIDS. -- Stephen King
She didn't want to close herself into this bad-smelling room with the old woman, but when there was no choice, hesitation was ever a fault. -- Stephen King
Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances. -- Stephen King
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 along. -- Stephen King
That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things ... and Annie. -- Stephen King
Auburn, catching up with his homies. -- Stephen King
"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night." -- Stephen King
When you empty out the vessel, you also empty out all the crap floating around in there. The additives. The impurities. It sure feels good. It's a whole body, whole-minded enema. -- Stephen King
My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams. -- Stephen King
Rivers of wrinkles flowing down from the corners of this eyes and mouth. -- Stephen King
The intersection of Green and Stupid is undoubtedly an American destination, but its sad. Sad. -- Stephen King
I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one's own mind and spirit, even if the atheists are right and there is no afterlife), but murder is also work. -- Stephen King
the world is insane. You only have to watch the news to know it. When -- Stephen King
He pulled a red-and-blue bandana from his back pocket, blew his nose with a decisive honk, and thrust it back out of sight after a short peek into it to see if he had gotten anything interesting. -- Stephen King
Here by the Canal, a g - A hand closed around Eddie's -- Stephen King
Wake up, genius. -- Stephen King
She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. -- Stephen King
I learned about the right jack, double runs, being stuck in the mudhole, and what Andy called "mystic nineteen" - the so-called impossible hand. -- Stephen King
Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration. -- Stephen King
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling. -- Stephen King
She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged. -- Stephen King
Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? -- Stephen King
Writing is refined thinking. -- Stephen King
I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me. -- Stephen King
Some clown shouting, "I want my lawyer, I want my lawyer, you guys run this place just like a frigging prison." Burkes: "Shut up in there, or I'll rank you." The clown: "I ranked your wife, Burkie." Gonyar: -- Stephen King
I'm not sure anyone gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. -- Stephen King
And maybe there had been enough tears, anyway. Which is not to say there wouldn't be more. -- Stephen King
To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money. -- Stephen King
I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations. -- Stephen King
I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life. -- Stephen King
When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. -- Stephen King
Sour cream! He had tasted it once and liked to puke. -- Stephen King
Her face is seamed with a million wrinkles like the map of a state where the geography hasn't settled down - rivers and canyons along her brown leather cheeks, ridges below the knob of her chin, the sinuous raised drumlin of bone at the base of her forehead, the caves of her eyes. -- Stephen King
of elective office), the yearly term was voted in. -- Stephen King
The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary. -- Stephen King
So turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favorite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them, because while I was working on this book, I believed in them myself. -- Stephen King
The Eld! The Eld! the Manni whispered, and several raised fists into the air with the first and fourth fingers pointed. -- Stephen King
Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both. -- Stephen King
Mister, we deal in lead. -- Stephen King
Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation. -- Stephen King
The memories: they are the reality. -- Stephen King
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. -- Stephen King
she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply, -- Stephen King
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read. -- Stephen King
The feast I ate was rotten,
What I thought was a palace was a dungeon. -- Stephen King
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. -- Stephen King
Hitchhiking around Canada with a buddy after my senior year of college was the closest thing to an adventure I'd ever had, and given the cheerful, helpful nature of most Canadians, it wasn't much of an adventure. -- Stephen King
Screw you and the horse you rode in on. -- Stephen King
Fiction is the unreal estate. -- Stephen King
Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that. -- Stephen King
I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me. -- Stephen King
We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand. -- Stephen King
All of Mid-World had become one vast haunted mansion in these strange latter days; all of Mid-World had become The Drawers; all of Mid-World had become a waste land, haunting and haunted. -- Stephen King
Time's the thief of memory -- Stephen King
heard a foreman berating a clerk for sending an order to Des Moines instead of Davenport before the clerk had gotten the shipping form from the front office. -- Stephen King
All novels are really letters aimed at one person. -- Stephen King
All of us look younger and sweeter when we smile our real smiles, the ones that come when we're genuinely happy. -- Stephen King
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity. -- Stephen King
As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears. -- Stephen King
When the time is gone, you can never get it back. -- Stephen King
your shadow has been over me for my whole life. -- Stephen King
Richie looked at each other grimly. Everything Eddie said -- Stephen King
Once upon a time, I would have said we choose our paths at random: this happened, then that, hence the other. Now I know better. There are forces. -- Stephen King
Is maybe the best we can do?" Callahan asked. "Yeah," Eddie said. "For the time being, I guess it is. -- Stephen King
Gone to serve the Great Ones, in the Null. No death, no light, no rest. -- Stephen King
Even children may intuit love's more complex responsibilities from time to time, and to sense that in some cases it may be kinder to remain quiet. -- Stephen King
True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
Love is a dream. -- Stephen King
Weird love's better than no love at all. -- Stephen King
And now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended -- Stephen King
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign. -- Stephen King
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. -- Stephen King
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected ... but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction. -- Stephen King
She didn't fool herself about either her lack of faith or her stubborn love of the idea itself. 'Come -- Stephen King
...there are worse things than losing the girl. -- Stephen King
A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had. -- Stephen King
Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought. -- Stephen King
Love leaves scars. -- Stephen King
WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE IS STRONGER THAN THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE - JIMI HENDRIX. -- Stephen King
Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish. -- Stephen King
You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism. -- Stephen King
What you got, son, I call it shinin on, the Bible calls it having visions, and there's scientists that call it precognition. I've read up on it, son. I've studied on it. They all mean seeing the future. -- Stephen King
I've got icewater in my veins and I hope you freeze on the first bite. Come on, you busher! Batter-fucking-up! -- Stephen King
Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems. -- Stephen King
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky. -- Stephen King
Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story. -- Stephen King
An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this. -- Stephen King
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. -- Stephen King
If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success -- Stephen King
They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty. -- Stephen King
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen. -- Stephen King
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation. -- Stephen King
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to? -- Stephen King
All that money and still unable to count the blessings of her life, beginning with freedom from the paycheck. -- Stephen King
Genius is a vastly overrated commodity. -- Stephen King
Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York. -- Stephen King
The devil can quote scripture. -- Stephen King
Jerusalem's Lot, she thought randomly, what an odd name. Not a pleasant name, for some reason . . . Come and sleep in Jerusalem. But -- Stephen King
In a brief court proceeding in 1966 the boy's mother had her son declared legally dead so she could enter into possession of Edward Corcoran's savings account. The account contained a sum of sixteen dollars. -- Stephen King
I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen. -- Stephen King
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. -- Stephen King
Where do I get my ideas? The more pertinent question is ... how do I make them stop? -- Stephen King
Tougher'n a boiled owl. -- Stephen King
The Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a bellyache. Help me! Please help me! - I take no stand in these -- Stephen King
...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects. Books are friends. ... They're also ideas and emotions. -- Stephen King
At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor - the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny. -- Stephen King
A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him. -- Stephen King
...clouds always roll in, and sooner or later they always roll out. -- Stephen King
He thought one of the universal truths of life was that, sooner or later, someone always paid. -- Stephen King
Mr Gray didn't care much for Jonesy's body (or so he told himself; in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as 'bacon' and 'murder'), but it did have to take him another couple of hundred miles. -- Stephen King
There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told. -- Stephen King
Life would go on as it had. All of it, in a kind of endless summer. -- Stephen King
Everyone loves something for nothing ... even if it costs everything. -- Stephen King
Through one hundred years' worth of forgotten books and dusty master's dissertations in the fields of history and folklore, through articles in defunct magazines, and amid brain-numbing -- Stephen King
Not a giggle, Hodges thought, but a titter. Given that her husband was dead, he supposed you could even call it a widder-titter. -- Stephen King
Who knows CPR?" asks the one who grabbed Hodges. A roadie with a long graying ponytail steps forward. He's wearing a faded Judas Coyne tee-shirt, and his eyes are bright red. "I do, but man, I'm so stoned." "Try -- Stephen King
Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now. -- Stephen King
This is how it goes when Homeland Security's been canceled due to lack of sanity. -- Stephen King
Chetta believed that most people who worked in the arts were high-functioning schizophrenics, and she was no different. -- Stephen King
He doesn't know he doesn't always. -- Stephen King
Tell you what, why don't you think of whoever wrote your first good book? I'm talking about the one that got under you like a magic carpet and lifted you right off the ground. Do you know what I'm talking about? They know. It's on every face that faces his. -- Stephen King
The Dark Powers have to give before they can take. -- Stephen King
Gimme the pill. I'm gonna fuck. She was of age. Why be coy? -- Stephen King
Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body's resources. -- Stephen King
At nineteen they can card you in the bars and tell you to get the fuck out, put your sorry act (and sorrier ass) back on the street, but they can't card you when you sit down to paint a picture, write a poem, or tell a story. -- Stephen King
I'm an addict, you see. And I'm a fan. And if there's a difference, I don't see it. -- Stephen King
Small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation. -- Stephen King
As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts. -- Stephen King
To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it. -- Stephen King
He found himself becoming more attuned to her moods, her cycles; he listened to her tick as if she were a wounded clock. 'As -- Stephen King
Pray for rain while digging a well. -- Stephen King
The snick of the catch was very loud. -- Stephen King
It's easy - too easy - to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike. -- Stephen King
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me! -- Stephen King
One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell ... if there is such a place. It tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey. -- Stephen King
Have you ever loved someone without liking them? -- Stephen King
In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wireman says. -- Stephen King
The young reject the holy, because to accept it means to accept the eventual death of all empiric objects, -- Stephen King
I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. -- Stephen King
Story is something happening to someone you have been led to care about. -- Stephen King
Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake. -- Stephen King
We drank because we're drunks. We never get better. We get a daily reprieve based on our spiritual condition, and that's it. -- Stephen King
I think we tend to write out our phobias. -- Stephen King
But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. -- Stephen King
We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons. -- Stephen King
Writing, it seems to me, is a secret act - as secret as dreaming - and that was one aspect of this strange and dangerous craft I had never thought about much. -- Stephen King
What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course. -- Stephen King
Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle. -- Stephen King
Only through fiction can we think about the unthinkable... -- Stephen King
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. -- Stephen King
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway. -- Stephen King
He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity. -- Stephen King
For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin. -- Stephen King
I wasn't alone in my belief that good writing can be simultaneously intoxicating and idea-driven. -- Stephen King
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. -- Stephen King
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough. -- Stephen King
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. -- Stephen King
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books. -- Stephen King
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. -- Stephen King
Don't wait for the muse. -- Stephen King
Writing is seduction. -- Stephen King
Easy reading is the product of hard writing, -- Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. -- Stephen King
What is writing? Writing is telepathy. -- Stephen King
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas. -- Stephen King
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with. -- Stephen King
The scariest moment is always just before you start. -- Stephen King
What would writing this sort of story mean to others? -- Stephen King
Words have weight. -- Stephen King
Hallorann's testicles turned into two small wrinkled sacs filled with shaved ice. -- Stephen King
No cancer, if that's what you're thinking, she'd say if anyone commented on her runway-model thinness, which she ordinarily disguised with billowing dresses or caftans. I'm just in training for the final lap around the track. -- Stephen King
There may be some truth in that idea houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them -- Stephen King
To pass beyond communication was to pass beyond salvation; he -- Stephen King
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor -- Stephen King
And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful. -- Stephen King
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. -- Stephen King
The rats are probably back already, a voice deep in my mind whispered. Eating her. They'll finish the good parts, the tasty parts, the delicacies, and then -- Stephen King
That life was richer,' a voice deep in his mind whispered. 'This one is truer,' whispered another, even deeper. -- Stephen King
stepped backward, tripped over a hassock, fell to the lobby rug. "Jack - -- Stephen King
I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win. -- Stephen King
Aye! I know your name by your face, and your face by your mouth. -- Stephen King
What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell. -- Stephen King
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. -- Stephen King
Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground. -- Stephen King
once a thing is found it can't be unfound, can it? -- Stephen King
you could have cut the lack of surprise and spread it on bread. -- Stephen King
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common ... -- Stephen King
You had the best of me and what have I got? -- Stephen King
If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long. -- Stephen King
For over a long period of time there's little in life so disheartening as constant cold - not deep enough to kill, mayhap, but always there, stealing your energy and your will and your body-fat, an ounce at a time. -- Stephen King
You be careful. I'd take you myself, but I'm busy as a cat in a mess of guitar strings. -- Stephen King
Hemingway Defense goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. -- Stephen King
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again. -- Stephen King
Someday her child would be a stranger to her, and she would be strange to him ... but not as strange as her own mother had become to her. -- Stephen King
At last he said, very softly, "It's big, isn't it?" "It is," I said. "And Al . . . man . . . I'm just a little guy. -- Stephen King
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying. -- Stephen King
Learning itself is a present, the best one anyone can give or get. -- Stephen King
I remember that I wanted to kill It,' Bill said, and for the first time (and ever after) he heard the pronoun gain proper-noun status in his own voice. -- Stephen King
I can't imagine how they must have felt, coming up here in their car and hoping against hope that when they got to the morgue, it would turn out to be someone else's well-loved child. -- Stephen King
Mookie came out. They're hot to go, Jamie. I'll roll some sound, if you want. I sure can't fuck it up, because these guys make the Dead Milkmen sound like the Beatles. -- Stephen King
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets. -- Stephen King
He just kept picking them up and laying them down. -- Stephen King
Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places. -- Stephen King
He killed them, Mr. Torrance, and then committed suicide. He murdered the little girls with a hatchet, his wife with a shotgun, and himself the same way. His leg was broken. Undoubtedly so drunk he fell downstairs. Ullman spread his hands and looked at Jack self-righteously. -- Stephen King
Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. It's soooo dark. -- Stephen King
No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it. -- Stephen King
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read -- Stephen King
Something else I want you to know: how glad I am, Constant Reader, that we're both still here. Cool, isn't it? - SK -- Stephen King
Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it. -- Stephen King
The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true -- Stephen King
Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. -- Stephen King
I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well. -- Stephen King
After all, there are other worlds than these and that fuckin train rolls through all of them. -- Stephen King
FEAR stands for fuck everything and run. -- Stephen King
everyone is dead and this is hell. -- Stephen King
A reporter who makes actual money for asking question so dumb they are surreal will inquire, How did you feel? -- Stephen King
Because everything that goes around comes around. Maybe it's luck or maybe it's fate, but either way, it comes back around. -- Stephen King
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves. -- Stephen King
Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell. -- Stephen King
I am what you might call a rambling man, and America is my beat. -- Stephen King
The book told unpleasant truths, and anyone who doesn't feel a qualm of regret at throwing a blanket over the truth is an asshole with no conscience. -- Stephen King
He was looking through the eyes of the prisoner. -- Stephen King
His story is simple, because simple is always best. -- Stephen King
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. -- Stephen King
But if you're determined to make me swallow calories, there's a six-pack of Ensure in the fridge. In my opinion it tastes like chilled snot, but I can choke it down. -- Stephen King
God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often -- Stephen King
Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way. -- Stephen King
Except it's not treasure we've come to bury. Just my daughter's castrated cat. He -- Stephen King
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people. -- Stephen King
She thought her heart would swell with happiness until it killed her. -- Stephen King
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever. -- Stephen King
It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing. -- Stephen King
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose),
someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's
all. I'm not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as
I see them. -- Stephen King
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness. -- Stephen King
Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back. -- Stephen King
You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse. -- Stephen King
One of these fellows had crawled out from under the porch of the house at 29 Neibolt Street one day and had offered to give Eddie a blowjob for a quarter. -- Stephen King
George Herbert was wrong. Living well isn't the best revenge; loving well is. -- Stephen King
Don't feel so sorry for yourself. Make do. -- Stephen King
Like they say in the infomercials, you're under no obligation. Right. On the other hand, my mother would have said the devil's voice is sweet. But I sat down. -- Stephen King
Stand right there. If your ass loses contact with that wall, you are going to lose contact with life as you have always known it. You understand?
Roland -- Stephen King
One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve. -- Stephen King
The smile that creased his thickish lips reminded me of Baby Bear's bed: not too hard, not too soft, just right. -- Stephen King
The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took. -- Stephen King
someone like him, is the island of exile where most teenagers go to wait until childhood becomes adulthood. What you need to see - what Rothstein finally saw, although it took him three books to do it - is that most of us become everyone. -- Stephen King
no one dies happy, you can only die well -- Stephen King
The lesson is that you're just an animal in a cage, no more than that, no better than that. -- Stephen King
Dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then. And that people who dream - or don't dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up - are mentally constipated in some way. -- Stephen King
It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind. -- Stephen King
You can rank me to the dogs and back, but I'll never lose the hard-on I use to fuck your mother. -- Stephen King
Some days are treasure. Not many but I think in almost every life there are a few. -- Stephen King
when the streets are deserted and a cold rind of moon floats over the canyons of the city. -- Stephen King
Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl. -- Stephen King
High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up. -- Stephen King
Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it. -- Stephen King
We go to seek a better world.
May you find one, as well. -- Stephen King
Sure. Through the windshield, Dan could see the Cowboy Boot patrons come and go, probably not talking of Michelangelo. -- Stephen King
Do it for joy and you can do it forever -- Stephen King
Machinery often responds favourably when it senses a penis-equipped human in the vicinity, Jo used to claim, but not this time. -- Stephen King
She had grown up knowing you cared for the one who had fallen and couldn't get up. She had also grown up knowing you ate no shit - not about your hosses, your size, your line of work, or your sexual preferences. Once you started eating shit, it had a way of becoming your regular diet. -- Stephen King
The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be. -- Stephen King
There were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the strands of a spiderweb. -- Stephen King
I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me. -- Stephen King
A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise. -- Stephen King
Money can't buy happiness, but it allows one to endured unhappiness in relative comfort. -- Stephen King
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on. -- Stephen King
Behind him now. He had looked at the very real possibility of his own death again and again had found -- Stephen King
Books were his Achilles heel. She -- Stephen King
After all, everyone casts a shadow. "That's -- Stephen King
Almost Overnight, his Eyes are great bloodshot Circles from which the pleasing light of Sanity seems to have departed. He -- Stephen King
I'd be willing to bet no kid, no matter how disturbed, was inspired to go out and shoot up a classroom by boogeying around his living room to "Moves Like Jagger." There -- Stephen King
Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story! -- Stephen King
Case fuckin closed. -- Stephen King
The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. -- Stephen King
When they argue they're like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don't see the landscape. You see the rabbit. -- Stephen King
Judith Brigham expected her daughter to remain a spinster the rest of her life. In the more pungent phraseology of her soon-to-be stepfather, "Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match." He -- Stephen King
Never leave a book facedown and open when he paused in his reading - because, he said, it broke the spines. -- Stephen King
Doubters will doubt to the end. -- Stephen King
That tight little accent grated on Clay's frayed nerves. He thought that if it had been a fart, it would have been the kind that comes out sounding like a party-horn blown by a kid with asthma. -- Stephen King
I unrolled my window to get away from the cigarette smog a little and watched a different world roll by. -- Stephen King
And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure. -- Stephen King
His eyes were as green and curious as the eyes of a tomcat who is old enough to be wise but not old enough to have lost that refined sense of cruelty which passes for fun in feline circles. -- Stephen King
For a minute they sat thinking about it - about worlds spinning on a single axle in dying harmony - and no one said anything. -- Stephen King
Once they rode camels in the desert; once they drove caravans across Europe. They eat screams and drink pain. You had your horrors at the Overlook, Danny, but at least you were spared these folks. -- Stephen King
Leo kind of sees into people. He's not the only one, either. Maybe there were always people like that, but there seems to be a little bit more of it around since the flu. -- Stephen King
That this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu. -- Stephen King
No! Not her! It can't be! That bitch came over on the Ark! -- Stephen King
If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing. -- Stephen King
Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't. -- Stephen King
Holly hangs up, washes her face in the tiny lavatory, reapplies -- Stephen King
Many lions is a pride; many crows is a murder; many bumbles is a throcket; many dragons is a bonfire. -- Stephen King
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. -- Stephen King
snatch of an old Bob Dylan lyric occurred to him, something about the price you had to pay to keep from going through everything twice. -- Stephen King
A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean. -- Stephen King
There was something wrong with that town, and I think I knew it from the first. -- Stephen King
Chris: How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard?
Teddy: Hey, I'm French, okay?
Chris: Your garbage cans are empty and your dog's pregnant.
[Chris and Gordie laugh]
Teddy: Didn't I just say I was French? -- Stephen King
All I have is intuition and a little hope." "Don't be such a pessimist. You've also got two tires, two garbage bags, and a hollow spindle. -- Stephen King
I see holes like eyes -- Stephen King
Leigh left college to be married, and then it was goodbye Drew and hello Taos. I went to her wedding with hardly a qualm. Nice fellow. Drove a Honda Civic. No problems there. -- Stephen King
You don't worry about dropping the eggs until you're almost home. -- Stephen King
Better than cancer or Alzheimer's, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits. -- Stephen King
Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality. -- Stephen King
She began to walk a little faster, the -- Stephen King
If there was anyone to hear you, they'd think you were screaming. But you'll be laughing, wont you? Because that's what insane people do when their lives are ending, they laugh ... and they laugh ... and they laugh. -- Stephen King
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands -- Stephen King
Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met in a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. -- Stephen King
As we become aware of our own unavoidable termination, we become aware of the fear-emotion. And I think that, as copulation tends towards self-preservation, all fear tends towards a comprehension of the final ending. -- Stephen King
a cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a complex sentences has a pause at the end of its clause -- Stephen King
You will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God's help you will stand. -- Stephen King
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. -- Stephen King
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. -- Stephen King
I think that gratitude for life, whatever the cause, indicates that one has managed to hold on to the core of one's sanity. -- Stephen King
If you haven't considered it already, consider it now: there is every possibility that some of us, or all of us, may live and triumph, only to stand trial for murder. -- Stephen King
But you have to remember, Fran, she's too old to change, but you are getting old enough to understand that. -- Stephen King
When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married. -- Stephen King
Until 1942. It ... but what was I saying? " "Twenty thousand people who lived right -- Stephen King
they had become almost used to these coincidences that could not possibly be coincidences, to the feeling that each one was the click of some great turning cog. -- Stephen King
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club. -- Stephen King
People say that where there's life, there's hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live. -- Stephen King
The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian. -- Stephen King
Throw our your mean words, Mr. Freemantle. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. -- Stephen King
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:
REDRUM -- Stephen King
Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too. -- Stephen King
Danny looked back over his shoulder. The bloodstain had returned, only now it was fresh. It was running. -- Stephen King
We all write fiction when we write about the past. -- Stephen King
What do you mean, visiting hours? Don't talk to me about visiting hours, that's my son! -- Stephen King
The smell of oil in the air was huge and furry. -- Stephen King
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours. -- Stephen King
The day will never come in when I lose enough respect for my own hide to shit on a Texan's mother, Stuart. -- Stephen King
I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were? -- Stephen King
This was a fact so simple that it defied logic. It bypassed logic. -- Stephen King
Their respect for the mystery
the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery. -- Stephen King
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust ... -- Stephen King
A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned. -- Stephen King
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man. -- Stephen King
The future was cloudy, but tonight the moon was bright. -- Stephen King
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. -- Stephen King
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. -- Stephen King
Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one's rest and plays hob with one's appetite. -- Stephen King
Home is where they want you to stay longer. -- Stephen King
He guessed plenty of kids had gone off to plenty of wars with that same excited gonna-kick-some-ass look on their faces. -- Stephen King
There are darker stories, many of them, that he keeps to himself. -- Stephen King
It's as if there's a fumble-fingered but powerful universal force at work, always trying to put wrong things right. -- Stephen King
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. -- Stephen King
Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? -- Stephen King
History is also a river. -- Stephen King
The first great thriller of 2017 is almost here: Final Girls, by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you'll like this. -- Stephen King
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? -- Stephen King
Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started. -- Stephen King
A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in. -- Stephen King
She thought that to children adult motives and actions must seem as bulking and ominous as dangerous animals seen in the shadows of a dark forest. They were jerked about like puppets, having only the vaguest notions why. -- Stephen King
When I say truth, I mean beauty. -- Stephen King
But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. 18 -- Stephen King
The other is missed chances. -- Stephen King
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men. -- Stephen King
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. -- Stephen King
It's the grapefruit. By which I mean its the pink one.
-Steven Deschain
Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower #4) -- Stephen King
She might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then. -- Stephen King
I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way". -- Stephen King
So fell Lord Perth," murmured Roland. "And the countryside did shake with that thunder," Jake finished. -- Stephen King
People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble. -- Stephen King
All I know is what's past is past, and what's ahead is ahead. The second is ka, and takes care of itself. -- Stephen King
The mask-face was very close to the face of Pennywise, the clown in the movie. The -- Stephen King
The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever. -- Stephen King
You have forgotten the doctrine of your own church, is it not so? The cross ... the bread and wine ... the confessional ... only symbols. Without faith, the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes. -- Stephen King
Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split. -- Stephen King
Is there a status quo in the house? -- Stephen King
We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams -- Stephen King
I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. -- Stephen King
What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular drama, no big drumrolls. -- Stephen King
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language. -- Stephen King
There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know. -- Stephen King
I don't think the ability to bust out bawling pretty much on cue should be a requirement for -- Stephen King
You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become. -- Stephen King
We'd all be scared if we knew what was swept under the carpet of each other's minds -- Stephen King
Some guys had lousy circuit breakers in their heads. They tripped easy, and once they did, those guys would burn on until they burned out. -- Stephen King
If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around. -- Stephen King
That's right, buddy. You bought yourself a dime root beer this afternoon. You also put Carolyn Poulin back in a wheelchair. -- Stephen King
Go then, there are other worlds than these. -- Stephen King
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. -- Stephen King
Christ, Richie thinks, opening a fresh beer for himself. it isn't bad enough It can be any damn monster It wants to be, and -- Stephen King
The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants. -- Stephen King
Easy as knitting kitten-britches, as Momo liked to say. -- Stephen King
I went into the can and shut the door before he had a chance to reply. And the next fifteen seconds or so were pure relief. Like beer, iced tea is something can can't buy, only rent. -- Stephen King
Some moments are beyond imagination. -- Stephen King
Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters. -- Stephen King
MY CHILD IS AN HONOR STUDENT AT THE STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, -- Stephen King
On Greenville Avenue you can never tell what's gonna happen. -- Stephen King
There was a saying in Gilead: Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall." "Uh-huh," Eddie said. "There was a saying in Brooklyn: You can't get snot off a suede jacket. -- Stephen King
See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam. -- Stephen King
I'm not sure we ever believe the simplest emotions in our art, although we see them all around us, every day. -- Stephen King
You're very pleasant to be with," she said. "I like you very much. And it's wonderful that you're not crazy. -- Stephen King
Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. -- Stephen King
Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn't you say so? -- Stephen King
Before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand. -- Stephen King
Could you actually remember pain? He didn't think so. You knew there was such a thing, and that you had suffered it, but that wasn't the same. -- Stephen King
Your mother has been using the old yardsticks all her life, and she can't change now. -- Stephen King
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either. -- Stephen King
home and there it sits on the counter, going sour. -- Stephen King
I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. -- Stephen King
Want to see the rock? Want to lay on it naked, and feel me in you, beneath the pinwheel stars, while the grass sings our names? -- Stephen King
God pisses down the back of your neck every day, but only drowns you once. -- Stephen King
And then, eyes widening in horror, he saw the word REDRUM reflecting dimly from the glass dome, now reflected twice. And he saw that it spelled MURDER. Danny -- Stephen King
He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge. -- Stephen King
She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face. -- Stephen King
Then act like men. Stop behaving like dogs crawling on their bellies to lick the boots of a cruel master. -- Stephen King
I fell in love with her partly because I understood what she was doing with her work. I fell because she understood what she was doing with it. I also fell in love because she was wearing a sexy black dress and silk stockings, the kind that hook with garters. -- Stephen King
We're friends here, I tell you - absolutely palsy-walsy. We'll break bread and speak of many things - oxen and oil-tankers and whether or not Frank Sinatra really was a better crooner than Der Bingle. -- Stephen King
I'll see you.'
He grinned. 'Not if i see you first. -- Stephen King
In November he'll go hunting with his friends, and that's enough to look forward to ... that, and maybe a big old sloppy-lipstick blowjob from this drunk chick out in his car. Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
Dreams are for kids. -- Stephen King
And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. -- Stephen King
It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky. -- Stephen King
Hirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself. -- Stephen King
Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks -- Stephen King
He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit. -- Stephen King
You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!! -- Stephen King
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. -- Stephen King
Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside. -- Stephen King
A woman's bitchiness is all she has to hold on to. -- Stephen King
A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it. -- Stephen King
Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into ... the Roland Zone! -- Stephen King
A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country. -- Stephen King
If everyone knows what there is to know, it stops a lot of tongues from a lot of useless wagging. -- Stephen King
The sky was huge - he could not remember ever seeing so much uninterrupted space, so much pure emptiness. It made him feel very small, and he supposed there was nothing at all wrong with that. In the scheme of things, he was very small. The -- Stephen King
Andy and Terry went into the kitchen to serve out the Neapolitan (which we called van-choc-straw . . . funny how it all -- Stephen King
I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee! -- Stephen King
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size. -- Stephen King
The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it. -- Stephen King
Here is a fish swimming around comfortably and (he thinks) unobtrusively, flicking here and there amongst the kelp and the plankton. Draw away for the long view and there's the kicker: It's a goldfish bowl. -- Stephen King
Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know. -- Stephen King
There's something powerful about knowing the shortest way, even if you take the longer way because you know your mother-in-law is sitting home. -- Stephen King
Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking. -- Stephen King
Truth was sometimes not the same as reality - this was one of the certainties that lived in the hollow, cavey place at the center of his divided nature. -- Stephen King
I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal. -- Stephen King
Black as night and as beautiful as forever. -- Stephen King
The woman from Room 217 was there, as he had known she would be. -- Stephen King
back to me. "Well. Perhaps. -- Stephen King
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you. -- Stephen King
Then that's all right, isn't it? -- Stephen King
Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk. -- Stephen King
It's hard for me to think of what happened next, let alone write it down, but I must, if only as a warning for anyone else who contemplates some similar experiment in damnation, and may read these words, and turn back because of them. -- Stephen King
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. -- Stephen King
Eddie looks at this, mouth dry, the familiar sensation of suffocation starting to tighten down in his chest like locking bolts. -- Stephen King
People have many ways to be lousy to one another, as you'll find out when you're older, but I think that all bad behavior stems from plain old selfishness. -- Stephen King
band behind them. The crowd moved and shifted. Tickertape and confetti fluttered down from the second- and third-floor windows of the business -- Stephen King
I only know I saw extraordinary things in my wanderings over the next few years, and I also met a lot of good people. It seems almost an insult to call them normal people, or ordinary people, but they were both. And certainly they give such words as "normal" and "ordinary" a feel of nobility for me. -- Stephen King
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. -- Stephen King
hope is a good thing, and good things never die! -- Stephen King
Hadn't you better hear the conditions before you accept them?"
"No. Give me your deal and I'll take it. There's Wendy and Danny to think about. If you want my balls, I'll send them airmail. -- Stephen King
I've been sleepwalking again, my dear. / The plants are moving under the rug. -- Stephen King
Beyond the reach of human range A drop of hell, a touch of strange . . . -- Stephen King
It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care. -- Stephen King
How many unsuspected selves could a person have, hidden deep inside? She was beginning to think the number might be infinite. -- Stephen King
Too much knowledge isn't good for a person. I know that now. -- Stephen King
When traitors are called heroes (or heroes traitors, he supposed in his frowning way), dark times must have fallen. -- Stephen King
And that's where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory. -- Stephen King
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride
if responsibility robs him of his manhood. -- Stephen King
Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind. -- Stephen King
Isn't there ever any getting away from it? -- Stephen King
He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty years ago. -- Stephen King
Is it ghosts or just the mirror
That makes ya want to flee? -- Stephen King
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world. -- Stephen King
Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous. -- Stephen King
God is cruel, David said in a voice almost too low to hear. -- Stephen King
There was no light to hide their act. VI -- Stephen King
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. -- Stephen King
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. -- Stephen King
One cannot increase one's talent - that comes with the package - but it is possible to keep talent from shrinking. -- Stephen King
Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. -- Stephen King
The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money. -- Stephen King
Freud offended me. He seemed to feel that any suggestion of depth in human nature was an illusion. -- Stephen King
I didn't know then that a person is never sure about a lot of things, no matter how much he wants to be. -- Stephen King
God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain. That -- Stephen King
She was thinking about how quietly you could grow to depend on a person, almost like a junkie with a habit. -- Stephen King
There is a frightening, sickening ease - and a clear attraction - to the way in which things can be blown apart. The hard job is bringing things together again. -- Stephen King
Staring at the hedge animals, he realized something had changed while he had his hand over his eyes. -- Stephen King
Forrest Tucker. Not very good. The other -- Stephen King
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. -- Stephen King
I felt comfortable as only one can on such a night, when all is miserable outside and all is warmth and comfort inside. -- Stephen King
You need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. -- Stephen King
The ear doctor smiled reassuringly and spoke the lie for which doctors should be immediately jailed (time of incarceration to be doubled when the lie is told to a child): Relax, Stevie, this won't hurt. -- Stephen King
At fifty-one you had to keep running just to escape the avalanche of your own past. -- Stephen King
There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love. -- Stephen King
What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen. -- Stephen King
You know when your feet get wet you always get a cold, Eddie - you're not like other people, you have a very weak system, you have to be careful. That's why you must always wear your rubbers when it rains. -- Stephen King
When a codependent is drowning, somebody else's life flashes before his eyes. -- Stephen King
When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief. -- Stephen King
The only two useful art forms are religion and stories. -- Stephen King
What the fuck, a man can't help his nature. -- Stephen King
They said it was going fine and gave him those dazed, fuck-struck smiles of which only newlyweds are capable. -- Stephen King
Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird. -- Stephen King
She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur. -- Stephen King
Why do people do that to gifted people? Is it jealousy? Fear? Both, maybe. But this kid had the advantage of knowing how good he was. -- Stephen King
Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight. -- Stephen King
Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing. -- Stephen King
I was just following orders. The people elected me. But who elected the people? -- Stephen King
Rarely isn't the same as never... -- Stephen King
If you disaprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have. -- Stephen King
Loosen up, " Mr. Keene said again. "Most of your trouble, Eddie, comes from being so tight and stiff all the time. Take your asthma, for instance. Look here. -- Stephen King
Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better. -- Stephen King
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. -- Stephen King
Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die. -- Stephen King
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been ... And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip ... at least until it proves otherwise. -- Stephen King
Mostly because nobody with his kind of talent has a right to hide it from the world. -- Stephen King
took the bottle of Texas Driver out -- Stephen King
When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets -- Stephen King
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face. -- Stephen King
I believe it lures people on to acts of terrible evil by whispering to them that they will do good. That they'll make things not just a little better but all better. -- Stephen King
They've gone to the land of Nineteen, he thought. Whatever is there. -- Stephen King
Then they all began to sing. The tune was "Happy Birthday," but the lyrics had changed. "Something happened . . . TO YOU! Something happened . . . TO YOU! Something happened, dear Jamie, something happened TO YOU!" That was when I began to scream. -- Stephen King
It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns. -- Stephen King
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 swamps of the unconscious. -- Stephen King
Horror is when you know and love the characters, but you also know something very bad is going to happen to them. It's not the monsters! -- Stephen King
The 'lady' looks as if she'd be happy to fuck a rope, could she make it stand up between her thighs. -- Stephen King
My advice about reading is to do a lot of it. -- Stephen King
He had never hated her for healing....She had done her time in hell...But she had come out. There had been Before, there had been Hell, there had been After, and there had been After-After. -- Stephen King
You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility. -- Stephen King
Even if things go all wrong they'll work out just fine. -- Stephen King
What are you planning?" "I think you've already guessed," I said. "I have spent the last thirty-six hours digging the world's longest grave, and now I'm going to bury you in your fucking Cadillac." The -- Stephen King
Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion. -- Stephen King
Her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare. -- Stephen King
Their lives had another forty seconds to run. -- Stephen King
That voice didn't have logic on its side, but it didn't need to. It had good lungs and just outscreamed logic. -- Stephen King
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high ... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time. -- Stephen King
Was it a spaceship? " Ben asked. -- Stephen King
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted. -- Stephen King
Horror's a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds. -- Stephen King
I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. Horror movies, science fiction movies, movies about losers on motorcycles- this was the stuff that turned my dials up to ten. -- Stephen King
At thirteen I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. -- Stephen King
Coldness went marching up his arms like the feet of evil fairies. -- Stephen King
Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same. -- Stephen King
I could tell you that dying's an art / and I am learning fast. -- Stephen King
I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday. -- Stephen King
You didn't want to call your boyfriend Buddy, but when reverting to his real name meant Bruce, it left you with no real ground to stand on. -- Stephen King
One of the things nobody tells you about the glamorous job of chaperoning teenage dances is that the shaps are the ones who have to make sure everything's picked up and locked away once the music ends. -- Stephen King
I know. But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn't always have a lot to do with objective truth. With -- Stephen King
Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back. -- Stephen King
False enthusiasm does not come easily to six-year-olds ... although, sad to say, it's a skill most of us learn fairly rapidly. -- Stephen King
Because sometimes longshots came in. Both for good and for ill. -- Stephen King
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path. -- Stephen King
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? -- Stephen King
I kissed her, just a gentle brush of my lips across hers. It was like swallowing a tiny drop of something incredibly sweet. -- Stephen King
Thank God for tunnel vision. Thank God for selective perception. Because without it, we might as well all be in a Lovecraft story. -- Stephen King
There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl," her father had told her once. "Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing ... or ye can decide not to decide." That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools. -- Stephen King
That last bit of babble had gone home. How was they supposed to know, that was ungrammatical but right. -- Stephen King
There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and misshapen. It -- Stephen King
Roland shook his head slowly. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and misshapen. It was why their fathers had let them come. And with his usual stubborn and inarticulate doggedness, Roland laid mental hands on whatever it was. -- Stephen King
Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything. -- Stephen King
The George George Stark George Starked over the Starky Stark. -- Stephen King
he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls... -- Stephen King
In the end, this sort of ban can only be accomplished in one way, and that's if gun advocates get behind it. -- Stephen King
Sometimes I think life is a sad, sad business, Doc. I really do. -- Stephen King
The rats won't bother you, anyway. They may even recognize you as one of their own, Paul. They may adopt you. -- Stephen King
It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell. -- Stephen King
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk. -- Stephen King
we see now through a glass darkly" and -- Stephen King
I don't think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world, but I wanted to get up to ninety-eight. -- Stephen King
There were twin double beds, each covered with bright-gold spreads that had been tucked under the pillows and then pulled over them, so the pillows looked like the corpses of infants. -- Stephen King
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. -- Stephen King
The adverb is not your friend. -- Stephen King
Everyone needs a hobby," he said. "And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave. -- Stephen King
Time belongs to the Tower. -- Stephen King
Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover. -- Stephen King
Why would a person do that, Bill? Why would a person go back into the nightmare of her own accord? -- Stephen King
Her hands were to her face but she could see through the prison of her fingers could see them how they were beautiful wrapped in light swathed in the bright angelic robes of Acceptance -- Stephen King
What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it? That it was my job? My job? -- Stephen King
I'd rather die at the hands of a friend than an enemy. -- Stephen King
In these silences something may rise -- Stephen King
Life turns on a dime, and when it does, it turns fast. -- Stephen King
The sleep you didn't get one night sometimes came to you on the next, and then it came like a lover. -- Stephen King
Stand and be true -- Stephen King
Tell him to shut up! Tell him there's no crying in baseball! -- Stephen King
Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. -- Stephen King
Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux. -- Stephen King
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford. -- Stephen King
The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and so he still believed. Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would be paid. And the longer the wait, the greater the weight. -- Stephen King
He had been a sailor and a sinner -- Stephen King
Two babbies shagging each other like they were the first two on earth to discover how 'twas done. -- Stephen King
Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little. -- Stephen King
When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works. -- Stephen King
He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead
black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language. -- Stephen King
Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it's human. -- Stephen King
The true world was behind it. -- Stephen King
by the side of a road and drove off. Whenever the careering grandkids -- Stephen King
He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side - you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched. -- Stephen King
Such a ridiculous man hardly deserved to live. -- Stephen King
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. -- Stephen King
Tommy died in 1969. He was a hippie with leukemia. Bummer, man. -- Stephen King
If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts. -- Stephen King
People can be stunningly unobservant. -- Stephen King
She sat there all afternoon in her hot maiden's bedroom, thinking and dreaming in the dark circle which the splinter spread around her, a darkness which was like the hood of a cobra. -- Stephen King
Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found. -- Stephen King
How many times, over how many years, had he - a grown man - asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud. -- Stephen King
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up -- Stephen King
But they wrote like little old men and little old ladies, all purseymouthed and ooo, don't slip on that icy patch, Mildred. -- Stephen King
The penalty for overeagerness is the same as the penalty for unworthiness. -- Stephen King
God loves to make a man break a vow. -- Stephen King
Books were escape. Books were freedom. -- Stephen King
Or to lick along the smooth velvet lining of a woman's mouth with his tongue. -- Stephen King
She wasn't wearing makeup that night, and didn't need any. The moonlight was her makeup. -- Stephen King
Make-up covers a multitude of sins. -- Stephen King
That vast voice from the darkness beyond the fence sang of that love; he heard it. And of simple forgiveness rather than the difficult forced march of atonement? He thought it was. -- Stephen King
the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster -- Stephen King
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. -- Stephen King
Or perhaps it was the voice of the Darker Girl. -- Stephen King
I write to find out what I think. -- Stephen King
I believe there is an unseen world all around us. -- Stephen King
Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age. -- Stephen King
I'd hate to think our whole planet was being judged by Texas. -- Stephen King
Play no fiddle with me, Miss Oh So
Young and Pretty! -- Stephen King
They float, they all float ... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too. -- Stephen King
When you came right down to it, how did anyone know they weren't a character in some writer's story, or a transient thought in some bus-riding schmoe's head, or a momentary mote in God's eye? -- Stephen King
Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother. -- Stephen King
The new wears off everything, and it usually doesn't take long. -- Stephen King
Boys were careless. It was a wonder any ever grew up to be men. -- Stephen King
Never give a good politician time to pray. -- Stephen King
Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, Come on in! -- Stephen King
I almost kissed her then, but lost my courage. Boys can be dopes -- Stephen King
Relief loosens tongues beyond measure. -- Stephen King
We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.
Close enough. -- Stephen King
Baby can you dig your man? He is a righteous man! -- Stephen King
Memory has a way of slipping a few gears after sixty-five, when people round the third turn start down the home stretch. He -- Stephen King
A frightening possibility suddenly occurred to him: maybe sometimes things didn't just go wrong and then stop; maybe sometimes they just kept going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up. -- Stephen King
When she said his name his arms prickled. Oh, he had it, all right. Had it bad. -- Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. -- Stephen King
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. -- Stephen King
And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except . . . we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it? I -- Stephen King
All things serve the beam -- Stephen King
When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you. -- Stephen King
But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa ... -- Stephen King
Your experiences with a few battered babies and drug abusers does not justify your embrace of a monster. -- Stephen King
Responding to non sequiturs - at cocktail parties, on public transportation, in ticket lines at the movie theater - is dicey enough, -- Stephen King
When a good animal gets run down in the road, a kid never forgets. -- Stephen King
I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. -- Stephen King
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. -- Stephen King
Are these the voices of our dead friends, or just the gramophone? -- Stephen King
Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets. -- Stephen King
There's a gate in our heads, too-that's what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit comes flooding through. -- Stephen King
What if death drives us insane? What if we survive, but it drives us insane? What then? -- Stephen King
If I ever gave you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream. 2 -- Stephen King
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have. -- Stephen King
If loyalty was toilet paper ... we'd be hard-pressed to wipe our asses, old buddy. -- Stephen King
But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient. -- Stephen King
Like attending the masquerade ball in Poe's story about the Red Death. You know, 'Come on, everybody! Kick out the jams, have another glass of champagne, and ignore all those people dropping like flies. -- Stephen King
Sometimes, dead is bettah - Jud Crandall, Pet Sematary -- Stephen King
Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all. -- Stephen King
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't. -- Stephen King
The small men and women with the upslanted eyes looked at his caked forehead and bloody jacket sleeve with unsettling Oriental blandness. -- Stephen King
He knocked the whiskey back neatly and did not grimace. "Once more, please. Once more with feeling, as they say in the world next door. -- Stephen King
I asked him. " 'I'm telling you that you aren't shooting blanks and haven't been for quite awhile now, ' he said. 'Millions of little wigglies in your sperm sample. Your days of going gaily in bareback with no questions asked have temporarily come to an -- Stephen King
Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises. -- Stephen King
As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty. -- Stephen King
To the devil with false modesty. -- Stephen King
Hadn't somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing? -- Stephen King
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. -- Stephen King
I prefer the Yankees,' one of the blueshirts chimes in.
'If I want your opinion, I'll rattle the bars in your cage,' Lombardazzi said. 'Until then, shut up and die right. -- Stephen King
She had considered throwing them out a dozen times but in the end always backed away from the idea, as if some unknown charm would be broken by the act. And -- Stephen King
Maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows? -- Stephen King
Teenagers are fast. They're like cockroaches that way. -- Stephen King
As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a dirty stucco wall in a thick, syrupy sunlight that was silent except for the stupid buzz of many flies -- Stephen King
There'll be water if God wills it, -- Stephen King
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around. -- Stephen King
Get busy living or get busy dying. -- Stephen King
Law and the Classes of Society, Judge -- Stephen King
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." -- Stephen King
I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone, so why can't I saw what it feels like? -- Stephen King
What he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. -- Stephen King
When I die I'll go to heaven 'cause I served my time in hell. -- Stephen King
The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes
maybe even often
it's the solution. -- Stephen King
Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto. -- Stephen King
There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition. -- Stephen King
When one knows and one does not, the one who does not must bow his head and the one who does must take responsibility. -- Stephen King
...sometimes the truth is cruel. -- Stephen King
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. -- Stephen King
Do people in your world always want only one story-flavor at a time? Only one taste in their mouths? -- Stephen King
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity. -- Stephen King
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. -- Stephen King
Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour. -- Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. -- Stephen King
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. [It is] the dubious luxury of normal men and women. -- Stephen King
Time is a face on the water -- Stephen King
A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools. -- Stephen King
A short story is like a kiss in the dark. -- Stephen King
Felt, because it was structured poetry. There were -- Stephen King
Some werewolves are hairy on the inside. -- Stephen King
The two most beautiful words in any language are : I forgive. -- Stephen King
Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel. -- Stephen King
Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy. -- Stephen King
When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions. -- Stephen King
There was a clown in the stormdrain. -- Stephen King
The world has moved on,' we say ... we've always said. But it's moving on faster now. Something has happened to time. -- Stephen King
I hated high school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something wrong with you. -- Stephen King
When facts speak, the wise man listens. -- Stephen King
Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing ... but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction ... -- Stephen King
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. -- Stephen King
She didn't believe Scott had exactly planned all this; he didn't even plan his books, as complex as some of them were. Plotting them, he said, would take out all the fun. -- Stephen King
I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship? -- Stephen King
Suck your damn old aspirator until someone pulls you out. -- Stephen King
Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant. -- Stephen King
What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be -- Stephen King
They float, Ben! They all float! Try one and see! -- Stephen King
Shit don't mean shit -- Stephen King
The brain is a muscle that can move the world. -- Stephen King
We lie best when we lie to ourselves. -- Stephen King
Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence. -- Stephen King
I find that the more I dislike adults, the more apt I am to call them Sir. What? -- Stephen King
There was no miraculous breackthrough that afternoon, unless it was the ordinary miracle that comes with any attempt to create something. -- Stephen King
When it comes to spinning stories, no one can do it with a straighter face than a cop. "I'm on my way. -- Stephen King
Few techniques are so successful, lady and gentlemen, as the one where you boggle the target's mind, freeze him with greed, then blitz him. -- Stephen King
Selective memory is one of the chief sins of the old, and I don't have time for it. -- Stephen King
The need to recreate the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place. Never -- Stephen King
oh shit it's shit -- Stephen King
Depressives kill themselves. Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along. I'm -- Stephen King
Whatever lay ahead, he was glad to be alive. -- Stephen King
It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. -- Stephen King
I'm going to kill you, you lying cocksucker. -Annie Wilks -- Stephen King
Jews may be a great mystery, but niggers are understood the whole -- Stephen King
Use your judgement."
"But I have so little. -- Stephen King
Eddie remembered the punchline of an old New York joke: "Pardon me, sir, can you tell me how to get to City Hall, or should I just go fuck myself? -- Stephen King
Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. -- Stephen King
Time to stand and be true. -- Stephen King
The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.
Watson the Caretaker -- Stephen King
In him, they saw again the coming of the White, that ancient, resilient, yet humble force that has redeemed humankind again and again and again. -- Stephen King
He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home. -- Stephen King
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. -- Stephen King
Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. -- Stephen King
They were far from a hundred, but they fought like a hundred. -- Stephen King
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it. -- Stephen King
Allie sighed. It was an old, yellow sound, like turning pages. -- Stephen King
Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them. -- Stephen King
You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot. -- Stephen King
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. -- Stephen King
But of course names were secret things, full of power. And -- Stephen King
As far as I'm concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity. -- Stephen King
There are other worlds than these. -- Stephen King
This is partly because of the technological revolution, but it's also because - " Together, Freddi and Brady chant, " - Barack Obama is the worst mistake this country ever made! -- Stephen King
Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI) -- Stephen King
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining. -- Stephen King
If you find a footnote, " a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, "step on its head and kill it before it can breed. -- Stephen King
Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were all around, but living people saw them no more than they could smell most of the ten thousand aromas that surrounded them every minute of every day. -- Stephen King
You saved Hal's wife, why not my wife? Why not Janice? WHY NOT MY JANICE? -- Stephen King
Google, that twenty-first-century Big Brother, -- Stephen King
But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie. -- Stephen King
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. -- Stephen King
He bought her six dresses, and I brought her god-damned cat back from the dead, so who loves her more?! -- Stephen King
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way. -- Stephen King
Fear is fertile and rage is its offspring.. -- Stephen King
God always punishes us for what we can't imagine. -- Stephen King
I will not waste it arguing about the merits of this short story or that poem. Why would I, when all such opinions are subjective, and no final resolution can ever be reached?" Some -- Stephen King
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. -- Stephen King
Like most men with what's known as "house-help," Pimli Prentiss had no clear sense of his employees as creatures with goals, ambitions, and feelings - -- Stephen King
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die. -- Stephen King
Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don't you think? -- Stephen King
Sooner or later, everything old is new again. -- Stephen King
May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain. -- Stephen King
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. -- Stephen King
Here's the bottom line. I don't care if it was Kinko the Klown or a guy in an Uncle Sam suit on stilts or Hubert the Happy Homo. If -- Stephen King
Hey hey Susan Day have you killed any kids today? -- Stephen King
Do you know if there's a supermarket in this mall?" The voice is young. And white. Morris discovers he can breathe again. "Safeway," he says, without turning. He has no idea if there's a supermarket in the mall or not. "Oh. Okay. Thanks. -- Stephen King
Because the brain doesn't age, although its ideas about the world may harden and there's a greater tendency to run off at the mouth about how things were in the good old days. (I -- Stephen King
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain - although it may think it can - the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite. -- Stephen King
Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love? -- Stephen King
Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like. -- Stephen King
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. -- Stephen King
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun. -- Stephen King
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. -- Stephen King
He used to watch NBC until he decided Brian Williams was a good-natured goof who's too fond of YouTube videos. -- Stephen King
It's us or you people; that's what he says. And I believe him." "They believed Hitler, too. But you don't believe him; you're just scared gutless of him. -- Stephen King
It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. -- Stephen King
In this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. -- Stephen King
Adults are the real monsters. -- Stephen King
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. -- Stephen King
We rarely get what we imagine in this world. -- Stephen King
The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration. -- Stephen King
Let this ground be seeded with salt, so that no stalk of corn, or stalk of wheat shall ever grow. Cursed be the children of this ground, and cursed be their loins. Also cursed be their hams and hocks. Hail Marry full of grace, let us blow this goddamn place. -- Stephen King
For the next ten minutes we talked theology in the green corn while early summer clouds - the best clouds, the ones that float like schooners - sailed slowly above us, trailing their shadows like wakes. -- Stephen King
Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit. -- Stephen King
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. -- Stephen King
Hell, we were kids. -- Stephen King
Time takes it all in the end... -- Stephen King
My own grandmother used to call it the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine. -- Stephen King
Sure I'd had second thoughts. But thoughts are not choices. -- Stephen King
Time passes and everything gets bigger except us. -- Stephen King
In a don't-give-a-fuck world, he is about to become the ultimate don't-give-a-fucker. -- Stephen King
The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single. -- Stephen King
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. -- Stephen King
Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. -- Stephen King
With no gods to pray to, Susan prayed to her father. -- Stephen King
There's an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. Was there ever a bigger knothole in human history than the internet? -- Stephen King
With relief help from Ryne Duren, who had no idea where the ball was going once it left his hand, and consequently scared the living shit out of the batters who had to face him. -- Stephen King
What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing. -- Stephen King
Don't make the mistake of putting your heart near his hand. -- Stephen King
Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. -- Stephen King
Sometimes we just get it wrong. -- Stephen King
It is the flush, Judge Beecher thinks, of a man who enjoys his tipple. -- Stephen King
Fuck your warning. And fuck your mother. Either shoot me or get out of my house. -- Stephen King
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started. -- Stephen King
He felt gladness roar through his soul. -- Stephen King
Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film, she's basically just there to scream and be stupid and that's not the woman that I wrote about. -- Stephen King
Those kids just wanted to rock, and most of them discovered they could...once they mastered a bar E, that was. -- Stephen King
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you. -- Stephen King
The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan. -- Stephen King
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. -- Stephen King
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again. -- Stephen King
It all floats down here! -- Stephen King
Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be. -- Stephen King
Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed. -- Stephen King
be counterproductive. Hilda's -- Stephen King
The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God. -- Stephen King
Remember, my talented friend, there are Michelangelos begging everywhere in the streets of Rome... -- Stephen King
no man really knows another man's heart, -- Stephen King
Gas!" Hallorann cried, his voice shrill and breaking. "Gonna burn you, baby! Dig on it awhile! -- Stephen King
I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed. -- Stephen King
But he still lingered for a moment, as if waiting for the wind to take a hand and perhaps gust him down to his car. -- Stephen King
Wow, " Ben said. He thought Eddie's mother must be really weird. He was unconscious of the fact that now both of his hands were fiddling in the remains of his sweatshirt. "Why don't you just say no? Say something like 'Hey Ma, I feel all right, I just want to stay home and watch Sea Hunt. -- Stephen King
Suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. -- Stephen King
About eighty people die of gunshot wounds in America every day. -- Stephen King
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one -- Stephen King
Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern? -- Stephen King
Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see. -- Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. -- Stephen King
If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do -- Stephen King
No bounce, no play. -- Stephen King
Lovecraft was an atheist. Edgar Allan Poe was sort of a half-assed transcendentalist. And Hawthorne was only conventionally religious. -- Stephen King
I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in. -- Stephen King
In the right circumstances anyone might sell anything and live to regret it -- Stephen King
The girl, who was thirteen, had been found mutilated and frozen into the muddy earth. This had -- Stephen King
So fell Lord Perth," he said, "and the countryside did shake with that thunder. -- Stephen King
After all, everyone casts a shadow. -- Stephen King
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. -- Stephen King
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live. -- Stephen King
You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for ... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you. -- Stephen King
The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect. -- Stephen King
A negative gesture. Little by little he began to get the coughing under control again. Mike was right; something was going to happen, and -- Stephen King
I am led irresistibly to this conclusion: food may be life, but the source of power is faith, not food. And who is more capable of a total act of faith than a child? -- Stephen King
In his heart, hope - that indestructible weed of the human heart - had begun to bloom again. -- Stephen King
There is hope, therefore I live. -- Stephen King
One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed. -- Stephen King
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover. -- Stephen King
My wife's been telling me that I'm a perfect horse's ass for years now. -- Stephen King
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you. -- Stephen King
Now Steffi - I'd done okay through most of the autopsy, but right about then I started feeling decidedly chuck-upsy. -- Stephen King
If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity. -- Stephen King
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns. -- Stephen King
From the Book of Republicans: "Lo, we have many assholes running for President. Let us consider, and pick the biggest. And so it was done. -- Stephen King
My job (and yours, if you decide this is a viable approach to storytelling) is to make sure these fictional folks behave in ways that will both help the story and seem reasonable to us, given what we know about them (and what we know about real life, of course). -- Stephen King
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird -- Stephen King
Memory is the basis of every journey. -- Stephen King
Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone -- Stephen King
The headless chicken strutted off into the Richardsons' dooryard, blood spouting, wings fluttering. After a bit it found out it was dead and lay down decently. -- Stephen King
Mimi was a human bulldozer, and when she met a seemingly immovable object, she just lowered her blade and revved her engine higher. -- Stephen King
He had live long enough to know there was a little scumbag in everyone, but it didn't help much when you had to take out the trash. -- Stephen King
There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. -- Stephen King
It takes the average human seven minutes to go to sleep, but according to Hand's Human Physiology, it takes the same average human fifteen to twenty minutes to wake up. -- Stephen King
Mr. Keene smiled. Think what you like, that smile said. Think what you like, and I'll think what I like. All I'm telling you, Eddie, is that you're not physically ill. Your lungs don't have asthma; your mind does. -- Stephen King
More coffee? Hodges declines with a smile. Hot can only do so much for bad coffee. -- Stephen King
I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see. -- Stephen King
He's a hothead and I'm a coward. Perhaps that's why we're friends - we fit around each other's wrong places, make something that's almost whole. -- Stephen King
Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it. -- Stephen King
For the first time in his life, Roland found himself hating his own childhood. He wished for the size and calluses and sureness of age. -- Stephen King
At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to live. -- Stephen King
But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind. -- Stephen King
Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. -- Stephen King
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. -- Stephen King
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments. -- Stephen King
It was easier to be brave when you were someone else. -- Stephen King
Now I felt more confident when I had the Kay in front of me, an electric shield plugged in and ready to drive. -- Stephen King
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back? -- Stephen King
Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy. -- Stephen King
The last good time always comes -- Stephen King
Then she screamed. There were no words in it, nor could there have been. Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate. -- Stephen King
The person healed has an obligation to then ask why - to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will. -- Stephen King
You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry. -- Stephen King
When I start a story, I don't know where it's going. -- Stephen King
If your car won't start, curse it ... and be sure you curse it female. -- Stephen King
Mind-mother in Eddie's head spoke up at once, her voice as stern and commanding as the voice of a traffic cop: Don't you dare do it, Eddie! Don't you dare! Wet feet, that's one way - one of the thousands of ways - that colds start, -- Stephen King
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon? -- Stephen King
Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed. -- Stephen King
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. -- Stephen King
You can't polish a turd. -- Stephen King
and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it, -- Stephen King
When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee. -- Stephen King
Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there. -- Stephen King
You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity. -- Stephen King
The world has a way of keeping things in balance. -- Stephen King
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies. -- Stephen King
The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own ... always comes home to you. -- Stephen King
And where did he finish the last sentence he would ever begin on earth? -- Stephen King
I couldn't help it, boss, he said. I tried to take it back but it was too late. -- Stephen King
planet Pluto. All -- Stephen King
For people like us, little people who went scurrying through the world like mice in a cartoon, sometimes laughing at the assholes was the only revenge you could ever get. -- Stephen King
When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs- -- Stephen King
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. -- Stephen King
The greatest terror of Danny's life was DIVORCE, a word that always appeared in his mind as a sign painted in red letters which were covered with hissing, poisonous snakes. -- Stephen King
Dan felt a throb of resentment (officious prick) but suppressed it. -- Stephen King
Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won't ever make em muffins. -- Stephen King
They both swam in the Pacific a great deal. It was warmer than the Atlantic, and friendlier. It held no memories. The boy began to get very brown. -- Stephen King
The way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. -- Stephen King
Thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears ... -- Stephen King
His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside. -- Stephen King
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. -- Stephen King
Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can't change the past, no matter how you try. -- Stephen King
The only way to go on is to go on -- Stephen King
Ka-mai, yes. Not just a fool, but ka's fool - a fool of destiny. -- Stephen King
He thought: This town has the wrong name. It ought to be Time. -- Stephen King
Remember the face of your father -- Stephen King
Frankie and Carter Thibodeau would revert to what they'd been before: smalltown losers with little or no jingle in their pockets. -- Stephen King
I'll loosen the ropes a bit if you'll be still," Roland told her. "Suck shit out my ass, mahfah!" "I don't understand if that means yes or no. -- Stephen King
He's got all sorts of strange ideas to catch up on. -- Stephen King
When I couldn't find you, I died. -- Stephen King
There was a brilliant flash of white, then darkness. Four seconds later, there was nothing left of Crow Daddy but his clothes. -- Stephen King
Actually, I think living's the worst habit. -- Stephen King
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside. -- Stephen King
Facing a dangerous man was always a bad business, but at least one could calculate the odds in such an encounter. When you were facing the dead, however, everything changed. -- Stephen King
Also I Won't come in yo' mouth or get any in yo' hair. -- Stephen King
A place is yours when you know where all the roads go. -- Stephen King
Their faces were zealously blank, their eyes filled with bland fire. -- Stephen King
We're only as sick as our secrets. -- Stephen King
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
It was as if the body disdained memory ... or refused the responsibility of it. -- Stephen King
If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't. -- Stephen King
Dancing is life. -- Stephen King
Lips which lie are best kept silent. -- Stephen King
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive. -- Stephen King
He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same. -- Stephen King
The two best things in life are warm croissants and a quick way home. -- Stephen King
But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of fiction, and there was a kind of dreadful exhiliration in seeing things that had troubled me for years come out in a new form, a form over which I had imposed control. -- Stephen King
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. -- Stephen King
Dad-a-dhuck, dad-a-churtle, don't worry, girl, you've got the turtle! -- Stephen King
This situation is not quite beyond saving, but should you carry on much further - should you give voice to such thoughts - it will be. -- Stephen King
Ka works and the world moves on. -- Stephen King
Hot chocolate in Central Park! What was the Dark Tower compared to that? -- Stephen King
You'll live in exile and die as you lived. -- Stephen King
he raced to beat the devil. -- Stephen King
Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare -- Stephen King
The puffed and infected ego underlay all, positive that all eyes were upon him or her, positive that he or she was starring in a great drama; the outcome was a thing for which untold millions waited with held breath. Such -- Stephen King
Of them all, he had been the most perfectly made, a man whose deeply romantic core was encased in a brutally simple box which consisted of instinct and pragmatism. -- Stephen King
Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut! -- Stephen King
Out of the blue and into the black -- Stephen King
Asbestos at that time and had all developed lung -- Stephen King
I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth ... -- Stephen King
no knowledge obtained without risk -- Stephen King
Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit. -- Stephen King
One speaks of acceptable risks, the question is always acceptable to whom? -- Stephen King
Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap. -- Stephen King
There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true. -- Stephen King
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. -- Stephen King
It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash. -- Stephen King
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one ... -- Stephen King
There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood. -- Stephen King
There is a kind of echo in the bright air, a yearning for other places in the blood, a loneliness in the heart that sings like the wind. -- Stephen King
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet ... -- Stephen King
Wear it home, it'll look like a dress. -- Stephen King
You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now. -- Stephen King
The elevator car was still six inches below floor level. Danny gazed at the difference in height between the third-floor hall and the elevator floor as if he had just sensed the universe was not as sane as he had been told. -- Stephen King
Was it possible, Danny wondered, to be glad you had done something and still be so ashamed of that something that you tried not to think of it? -- Stephen King
It's just my opinion, you see, and opinions are like assholes: everybody has one. They -- Stephen King
It is the line soldier who ultimately pays for any foreign intervention, -- Stephen King
As for me, I only wish the former Christy Epping had been correct. I wish I had been emotionally blocked, after all. Because everything that followed - every terrible thing - flowed from those tears. -- Stephen King
The little ones are the only good human beings. -- Stephen King
Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out. -- Stephen King
At the heart of every established religion is one sacred mystery that supports belief and induces fidelity, even to the point of martyrdom. -- Stephen King
People in AA are generally too fundamentally broken to see that they've turned their lives over to an empty concept and a failed ideal," he -- Stephen King
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved. -- Stephen King
I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent. -- Stephen King
Never whistle for the wind unless you want it to blow, -- Stephen King
Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice. -- Stephen King
And yes, all of a sudden she was scared. It was like a yellow thread weaving in and out of the bright red overblanket of her rage. -- Stephen King
I went on a Saturday afternoon, once more cutting through Dorrance Marstellar's cornfield -- Stephen King
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II. -- Stephen King
Finally I began to get angry. I wanted to make someone pay. I wanted to strike back at the world and make the world know I was alive. -- Stephen King
Explanations are such cheap poetry. -- Stephen King
The whole place was empty.
But it wasn't really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on. Here in the Overlook all times were one. -- Stephen King
A man's mouth gets him in more trouble than his pecker ever could, most of the time. -- Stephen King
Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation. -- Stephen King
Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away. -- Stephen King
A kid of your age - any kid - could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to? -- Stephen King
A woman in love, is what. In my experience, they got their own laws. -- Stephen King
If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position. -- Stephen King
Tried to teach him The Lord's Prayer once." His eyes traveled out beyond the hut for a moment, toward the gritty, featureless hardpan. "Guess this ain't Lord's Prayer country. -- Stephen King
Startled pigeons filled the old, shadowy rooms and crumbling hallways with their soft thunder. -- Stephen King
Then I got back to the house, and all I worried about was my story and the people in it
bags of bones which were putting on flesh daily. -- Stephen King
Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'll
understand myself right into the nearest mental asylum. -- Stephen King
It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a shield of years. -- Stephen King
Because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself. -- Stephen King
And she knew someone was behind her even before the hand fell on her shoulder. NINE -- Stephen King
Get married to some nagging broad and always own last year's model, vote Democrat - -- Stephen King
The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don't ask. -- Stephen King
If you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere -- Stephen King
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy. -- Stephen King
Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter. -- Stephen King
Bad times are on horseback. -- Stephen King
Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches. -- Stephen King
Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof. -- Stephen King
It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind - but it had hurt his heart. -- Stephen King
Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them. -- Stephen King
If you look like you belong in a place, most people think you do. -- Stephen King
The year the Sox finish in the first division will be the year you stop stuttering, mushmouth, Richie said. -- Stephen King
Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front -- Stephen King
I choose to believe in God because it makes things better. -- Stephen King
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. -- Stephen King
Is Stephen King the Crimson King of this world? -- Stephen King
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. -- Stephen King
The editor is always right. -- Stephen King
A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought. -- Stephen King
I'm like the curious cat. You know what they say - satisfaction brought him back. -- Stephen King
I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about. -- Stephen King
questions of what we're supposed to or not supposed to do aren't even in it; if we tried to go around, we'd find circumstances forcing us back. -- Stephen King
When there's no more room in hell, this artifact said, the dead will walk the earth. -- Stephen King
All at once, life seemed very full. -- Stephen King
In a weird way it was just too good to put down. It was like a novel so disgusting you just have to finish it. -- Stephen King
Some people have remarkably sturdy illusions. -- Stephen King
There are worlds other than these. -- Stephen King
Fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run. -- Stephen King
Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God -- Stephen King
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside. -- Stephen King
But that day Spot just sat in the tub and let me wash him. He never moved at all. I didn't like it. It was like . . . like washing meat -- Stephen King
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. -- Stephen King
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful -- Stephen King
had anyone ever been as homeless as she, not just out of house but out of time itself? - -- Stephen King
But the boy survived his refusal to believe... -- Stephen King
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. -- Stephen King
My score grows ever longer, and the day when it will all have to be totted up, like a long-time drunkard's bill in an alehouse, draws ever nearer. However will I pay? -- Stephen King
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. -- Stephen King
Just because he had underestimated them to start with didn't mean he should turn about-face and begin overestimating them now. -- Stephen King
Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes. -- Stephen King
The smile was ghastly, horrible. It was like watching a corpse smile. -- Stephen King
cheery as a cherrio -- Stephen King
you?" "Actually I didn't." "Jesus Christ, you kids." He -- Stephen King
He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us. -- Stephen King
A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave. -- Stephen King
A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze. -- Stephen King
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary -- Stephen King
I might be able to get Vince alone and break him down. He's got all the spine of a dying jellyfish. -- Stephen King
Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side. -- Stephen King
My life for you. I lay down my life you. -- Stephen King
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. -- Stephen King
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight. -- Stephen King
Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life. 15 -- Stephen King
Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts. -- Stephen King
As the twig is bent the bough is shaped, that was another old saying, and once a pretentious asshole, always a pretentious asshole. -- Stephen King
It was not the voice of God but only the thunder. That's not right, but it's how he remembers it. Not God but the thunder. Or is that only what he wants to believe? How many times has God been denied just that way? -- Stephen King
Foster's face breaks into a grin. -- Stephen King
Pete said she didn't like to read, and he could never get tight with a girl who didn't like books. -- Stephen King
In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul. -- Stephen King
A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will. -- Stephen King
That's a big room up there, and a .38 doesn't have much accuracy from a distance. -- Stephen King
Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong. -- Stephen King
The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time. -- Stephen King
I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars. -- Stephen King
A wave is a pretty thing to look at when it breaks on the beach, but too many only make you seasick. -- Stephen King
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. -- Stephen King
He looked perhaps ten years younger than his actual age, which was thirty-eight. -- Stephen King
Put another way, to write is human, to edit is divine. -- Stephen King
If a person doesn't know they're hurting, why, maybe they're not. I was wrong. -- Stephen King
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? -- Stephen King
It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. 'You -- Stephen King
The curse and blessing of the human race was its chumminess. -- Stephen King
How cruel would a supreme being have to be to make a world as fucked-up as this one? -- Stephen King
Stephen King rules! -- Stephen King
Bill thought, Why are they crying so far apart? and then he shoved the thought away. -- Stephen King
And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out. -- Stephen King
Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man. You feel me? -- Stephen King
Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?'
Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that. -- Stephen King
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. -- Stephen King
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something. -- Stephen King
Sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend -- Stephen King
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. -- Stephen King
Jesus H. Christ on a chariot-driven crutch. -- Stephen King
PRECOGNITION, TELEPATHY, BULLSHIT! EAT MY DONG, YOU EXTRASENSORY TURKEY! -- Stephen King
I don't give a shit what people call me as long as I can go to sleep at night. -- Stephen King
They ought to make it a law that you have to get a license, or at least a learner's permit, before you're allowed to talk. Until you pass your Talker's Test, you should have to be a mute. -- Stephen King
New Jersey. If there's anyone more purely foolish than a New Yorker, it's a fellow from New Jersey. -- Stephen King
Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. -- Stephen King
... no one is exactly sure of what they mean on any given subject until they have written their thoughts down; I similarly believe that we have very little understanding of what we have thought until we have submitted those thoughts to others who are at least as intelligent as ourselves. -- Stephen King
Only people you want, need to be with, people who build houses in your heart. -- Stephen King
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all. -- Stephen King
Sympathy was to respect the feelings of another. Empathy was to actually share those feelings. -- Stephen King
the longer the wait, the greater the weight. At -- Stephen King
Life is a capricious bussines. -- Stephen King
There's nothing like TV when it comes to eroding a regional accent. -- Stephen King
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. -- Stephen King
She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple -- Stephen King
All of this was well meaning bullshit. But bullshit is still bullshit and will never be mistaken for McDonald's secret sauce. -- Stephen King
If our faith is strong, we'll go to heaven, and we'll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us. -- Stephen King
Ain't you just the cheeriest Cheerio, ' I says. -- Stephen King
Let it eat her; let it beat her. It could do both. But she would not beat herself. -- Stephen King
I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness ... -- Stephen King
You see, the overall concept of evil in the Catholic -- Stephen King
Writing is magic. -- Stephen King
We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. -- Stephen King
Beans, beans, the musical fruit,
The more you eat, the more you toot. -- Stephen King
peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. -- Stephen King
It seemed to him that if the wrong man stepped into the marriage-loop with a woman, it was a noose instead of a ring. -- Stephen King
My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers. -- Stephen King
Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight. -- Stephen King
If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you. -- Stephen King
To this day I'm not entirely sure what hematocrit and hemoglobin are, but mine started to come back up and that pleased everybody. -- Stephen King
Because it was frightening, they swept it quickly from their minds. -- Stephen King
Those OxyContins he takes aren't just pain pills, they're stupid pills. -- Stephen King
If you can read in the 21st century you own the world. -- Stephen King
It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions. -- Stephen King
Maybe it's an effort to lance the wound and clean it out. Or maybe it's just that I'm not rich enough to afford a shrink. In -- Stephen King
Thought I just had the usual case of heroin sniffles, -- Stephen King
On writers' workshops: It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. -- Stephen King
Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs. -- Stephen King
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind. -- Stephen King
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. -- Stephen King
A little chill touched him and he looked down at the bright plastic grass, wondering why it had to be a part of every funeral. It looked like exactly what it was: a cheap imitation of life discreetly masking the heavy brown clods of the final earth. -- Stephen King
Go with your bad self. -- Stephen King
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality. -- Stephen King
I tend to scare myself. -- Stephen King
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. -- Stephen King
Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself. -- Stephen King
Old habits died hard. Often, she thought, they don't die until we do. -- Stephen King
What was he thinking? The Internet did not predict the future; only the pink Kindle did that. -- Stephen King
Arr, reality's a dirty place with no religion in it. -- Stephen King
Go waste your poison on someone else. -- Stephen King
But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. -- Stephen King
It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count. -- Stephen King
The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning. -- Stephen King
We all float down here Timmy -- Stephen King
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. Just an idea. -- Stephen King
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. -- Stephen King
Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can. -- Stephen King
I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it. -- Stephen King
There's a door in the wall. The door is covered with ivy. The ivy is dead. She waits. -- Stephen King
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. -- Stephen King
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. -- Stephen King
You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it. -- Stephen King
The diligence took another terrific bounce. -- Stephen King
Joy - that's a cheerful little word... -- Stephen King
The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones. -- Stephen King
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. -- Stephen King
I've killed enough of the world's trees. -- Stephen King
Does a machine fall sick with sores and puking? Well, Eddie thought of saying, there was this bear ... -- Stephen King
That won't happen, I told myself. I won't let it happen. Like Hillary Clinton said in 2008, I'm in it to win it. Except, of course, she had lost. 5 -- Stephen King
Left, his own hand resting lightly on his son's head. -- Stephen King
She knew that shadows could be dangerous. They could have teeth. -- Stephen King
Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. -- Stephen King
The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At -- Stephen King
Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness. -- Stephen King
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. -- Stephen King
Nora Roberts is cool. -- Stephen King
Life turns on a dime. -- Stephen King
She did not want to know about dark cabals and murderous plans. What she wanted from the cards was relatively innocent. -- Stephen King
Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion. -- Stephen King
That done, he let his fingers play briefly over the magneto. -- Stephen King
True love always happens in a flash. -- Stephen King
Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Stephen King
Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again. -- Stephen King
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings. -- Stephen King
I think different. And I can think different if I want to. -- Stephen King
The guns-for-everyone advocates hate that statistic, and dispute it, but as Bill Clinton likes to say, it's not opinion. It's arithmetic, honey. -- Stephen King
Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka ... -- Stephen King
He was a romantic in his own harsh way ... yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all. -- Stephen King
It is the tale, not he who tells it. -- Stephen King
Be grateful for the time you've had with him. A little bit of grace. That's what a good dog is, you know. A little bit of grace. -- Stephen King
I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture -- Stephen King
One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else. -- Stephen King
Tharn. It was a good word for a bad state of mind. -- Stephen King
Go where ye list,' as the Good Book says. But go there alive, Trisha. Don't be no ghost. If you turn into one of those, it might be better if you stayed away. -- Stephen King
Life was a short shelf that came with bookends. -- Stephen King
No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community. -- Stephen King
It's time to quit fucking around, don't you know that? When you start to see colored footprints on the sidewalk, it's time to quit fucking around and go to the doctor. -- Stephen King
You could be stung, but you could also sting back. He believed that sincerely. -- Stephen King
There were no ghosts. Only memory. -- Stephen King
The room held her scent, fresh lilac, pathetic. -- Stephen King
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. -- Stephen King
A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. -- Stephen King
What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane. -- Stephen King
Time-travelers lie a lot. -- Stephen King
It was like a novel so disgusting you just have to finish it. Annie's -- Stephen King
Love o love o careless love See what careless love has done. -- Stephen King
leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express). She -- Stephen King
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. -- Stephen King
Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything? -- Stephen King
He killed them with their love -- Stephen King
It was not like him to think so much of the past. -- Stephen King
They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter. -- Stephen King
When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They're like cops that way. -- Stephen King
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters - only what people do tells us more about what they're like, -- Stephen King
Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off. But not forever. -- Stephen King
He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel - they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing. -- Stephen King
It's as if, after all these years, the quest itself has become the point for me, and the end is frightening. -- Stephen King
People are only rational on the surface. -- Stephen King
Reality is Ralph. -- Stephen King
Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel. -- Stephen King
Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one. -- Stephen King
Why would she do that?"
"Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical. -- Stephen King
Scaring people is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. -- Stephen King
It's been gang-tagged up the old wazoo, -- Stephen King
He felt that if he could get deep down in himself quickly enough, he would be okay, but sympathy might drive him mad. -- Stephen King
It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. -- Stephen King
The gate is the key to the kingdom. -- Stephen King
When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit. -- Stephen King
My basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves. -- Stephen King
Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started. -- Stephen King
That was a thing of which he as yet had no knowing. -- Stephen King
I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring. -- Stephen King
contempt there, as well. She will not allow even -- Stephen King
I loved you guys, you know.
I loved you so much. -- Stephen King
The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't. -- Stephen King
Trying to outrun the novelist's most insidious enemy, which is doubt. -- Stephen King
I also know it's true, that thing about how perception switches around and we come to realize that the things we thought we were holding are actually holding us. -- Stephen King
Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl. -- Stephen King
A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless. -- Stephen King
Surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes. -- Stephen King
Might as well spit in the ocean -- Stephen King
I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me. -- Stephen King
He understood a great many things about his parents, and he knew that many times they didn't like his understandings and many other times refused to believe them. -- Stephen King
I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one. -- Stephen King
Go then; there are other world than these. -- Stephen King
The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive. -- Stephen King
Bobby thought some message was passing between them. Not via telepathy, exactly . . . only it was telepathy, in a way. The humdrum sort adults practiced. -- Stephen King
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while. -- Stephen King
I'd jump out of her mouth some night while she's snoring and run the fuck away. -- Stephen King
In a week, you'll take it for granted," he said dismissively. "That's the way it works with miracles. -- Stephen King
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. -- Stephen King
It's very hard for a man to fight naked. -- Stephen King
Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down ... -- Stephen King
The wind moaned, a witch with cancer in her belly. -- Stephen King
Get busy living or get busy dying ... there ain't nothing inbetween -- Stephen King
None va fanculo, catzarro," Balazar said. "Eddie Dean va fanculo." He smiled gently, and began on the second level of his tower of cards. 11 -- Stephen King
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain. -- Stephen King
M-O-O-N Spells moon -- Stephen King
There can be a big difference between what you think is great and what you actually like. -- Stephen King
I was recently downsized. That's the twenty-first-century way of saying I got canned. She -- Stephen King
Annie was not swayed by pleas. Annie was not swayed by screams. Annie had the courage of her convictions. -- Stephen King
No they're not, he said. It was the voice of a man stating a simple fact. -- Stephen King
Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents. -- Stephen King
Frankly speaking, you look like ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. -- Stephen King
It's wetter than a taco fart down there and just as smelly," Mr. -- Stephen King
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. -- Stephen King
Rubes came and rubes went. -- Stephen King
I remembered something my mother used to say. "The devil can quote scripture." "And in a pleasing voice," Mrs. Shoplaw agreed moodily. -- Stephen King
Waiting rooms were made for books - of course! -- Stephen King
lies and love rarely went together, and never for long. -- Stephen King
This inhuman place makes human monsters. -- Stephen King
Everyone - black as well as white - thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land. -- Stephen King
Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me. -- Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. -- Stephen King
I know what you mean, jellybean. -- Stephen King
I guess a sock is also a geometric shape - technically - but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon? -- Stephen King
You went away a little boy in a man's body and you came back the same way, except the man got his hair processed. -- Stephen King
We need to talk is Momspeak for Houston, we have a problem. -- Stephen King
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. -- Stephen King
Shit don't mean shit." Jimmy Gold -- Stephen King
That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess. -- Stephen King
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. -- Stephen King
So he had done, believing in his youthful arrogance that everything would turn out all right for no other reason - yes, at bottom he had believed this - than that he was he, and ka must serve his love. -- Stephen King
God says, Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too. -- Stephen King
Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes. -- Stephen King
For days it can be good, weeks, even, and then there's something to swallow. -- Stephen King
The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar. -- Stephen King
I thought of how life had been before I realized I was a frog in a pot -- Stephen King
Was it God that made magic, or was it magic that made God? -- Stephen King
America is a living body, the highways are its arteries, and the True Knot slips along them like a silent virus. -- Stephen King
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. -- Stephen King
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do. -- Stephen King
There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. -- Stephen King
She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five ... -- Stephen King
And watch out for the blade, Constant Reader. It is a Stephen King story, after all. -- Stephen King
a slow drum muffled in velvet. It's her heart. -- Stephen King
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb. -- Stephen King
Any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard. -- Stephen King
I made a seesaw gesture with my hand. -- Stephen King
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils. -- Stephen King
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. -- Stephen King
On some level I believed him completely, as we always believe on some level, the worst thing our hearts can imagine -- Stephen King
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver, he thought. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh. -- Stephen King
If you'd told em you killed a blind gramma, they'd have stayed to eat the pizza and cake. Free is free. -- Stephen King
Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond -- Stephen King
This is what happened. -- Stephen King
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. -- Stephen King
Nope, nothing wrong here. -- Stephen King
There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. -- Stephen King
I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a belly-ache. -- Stephen King
Sorry is so cheap. -- Stephen King
We turn from all we know and all we fear. -- Stephen King
She was my heart, and I guard what's there. Nobody takes it away from me. -- Stephen King
So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then. -- Stephen King
You take yourself with you, wherever you go. -- Stephen King
It was like drowning, only from the inside out. -- Stephen King
So exquisitely slopped that he didn't know if he was on land or at sea. -- Stephen King
There's really no just about it, is there? -- Stephen King
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying. -- Stephen King
Put not your trust in the princes of this world, for they will frig thee up and so shalt their governments, even unto the end of the earth. -- Stephen King
But any man can lose his head. That's what they don't realise. Any man. Under the right set of circumstances -- Stephen King
Do you see this heart-stopping beauty? Look closely, because in a moment your heart will stop. -- Stephen King
Men don't interest me. Not that I'm a lesbian. Don't get that idea. I write poetry. -- Stephen King
He's come out the other side. That was all. No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. -- Stephen King
Because if suicide was the only option, you could at least choose your weapon. -- Stephen King
Common tools go on top. The commonest of all, the bread of writing, is vocabulary. -- Stephen King
...I could see the doubt eating into her like acid. -- Stephen King
Grammar is not just a pain in the ass; it's the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. Besides, all those simple sentences worked for Hemingway, didn't they? Even when he was drunk on his ass, he was a fucking genius. -- Stephen King
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow. -- Stephen King
Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. -- Stephen King
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. -- Stephen King
Life could sometimes be grand. -- Stephen King
Don't let your good nature cloud your critical eye. The critical eye should always be cold and clear. -- Stephen King
Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on. -- Stephen King
One of the few things I've learned since then about the fundamental differences between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do. -- Stephen King
You fucking drunken waste god wiped snot out of his nose and that was you -- Stephen King
Beyond the reach of human rage
A drop of hell, a touch of strange ... -- Stephen King
don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need... -- Stephen King
When it started not to hurt, it started not to matter. -- Stephen King
emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers -- Stephen King
In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful. -- Stephen King
It's okay,' he said. 'I mean, it's not great, but it's okay. -- Stephen King
It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them. -- Stephen King
We can't go on so. Not for long. -- Stephen King
The guy was tall, and possessed one of those earnest faces Henry associated with middle management. -- Stephen King
Sometimes he makes us live. -- Stephen King
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. -- Stephen King
But sin never dies. Sin . . . never . . . dies. -- Stephen King
I write for love, but love doesn't pay the bills. -- Stephen King
In the end, we wear out our worries. -- Stephen King
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead. -- Stephen King
Above all else, be consistent. -- Stephen King
We're here to fuck shit up -- Stephen King
This is my body, broken for you. -- Stephen King
serious art came from . . . . out there! -- Stephen King
All Thing Serve the Beam -- Stephen King
The monster nevers dies. -- Stephen King
(how I wish you were fear) -- Stephen King
Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things. -- Stephen King
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair -- Stephen King
Good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive. -- Stephen King
A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless. -- Stephen King
Fear is the emotion that makes us blind. -- Stephen King
In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning. -- Stephen King
Every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go ... -- Stephen King
Crazy was a hard state to define. -- Stephen King
Why not invite him in and show him your African bird? Oh, -- Stephen King
Hunger is the piston of art. -- Stephen King
You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. -- Stephen King
What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. -- Stephen King
The situation comes first ... the characters ... come next ... [then] begin to narrate ... -- Stephen King
It's not going to last. Just thought you might want to know. -- Stephen King
Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook. -- Stephen King
Do the day and let the day do you. -- Stephen King
Anyone who doesn't think the imagination can kill is a fool. -- Stephen King
The author of so many evils," he said. -- Stephen King
And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you're still there after all these years. If you're having fun, I am, too. -- Stephen King
Tonight, however, the impossible was selling cheap. -- Stephen King
Time is a tree with many branches. -- Stephen King
When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction. -- Stephen King
I wanted to move on-...rehab my heart, move on. -- Stephen King
We grew up, he thought. We didn't think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in there it will be real: we're all grownups now. He -- Stephen King
The stories we hear in childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. After -- Stephen King
Never so good as what you don't see. -- Stephen King
If we had tails, I think most of us would spend all day chasing them and trying to bite them off. -- Stephen King
His father's study smelled of cigarettes and ambition. -- Stephen King
Please, always you. -- Stephen King
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.br>Brown nodded. "I think this is it. -- Stephen King