R.K. King Quotes

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

Only God gets things right the first time.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

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?

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

We all float down here!

Nora Roberts is cool.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

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?

Politics always change. Stories never do.

You say true, I say thankya.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

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.

You have to go where the book leads you.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

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.

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.

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.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

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.

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.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Adults are the real monsters.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

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.

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

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.

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?

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

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.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

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.

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?