Stephen King Quotes

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.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

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.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

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.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

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.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

I think that 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.

All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

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.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

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.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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?

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

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.

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.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

The Lord is my shepherd. 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

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

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.

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.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.