Stephen King Quotes
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
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.
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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.
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.
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
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.
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
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.
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.
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.
Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.
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.
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
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.