R.K. King Quotes

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

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.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

Writing is seduction.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

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.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

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."

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

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.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

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

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

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!

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

He sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Bad chances were better than no chances.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

And then the world exploded.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

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.