Stephen King Quotes

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

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.

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.

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.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

I work until beer o'clock.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Above all else, be consistent.

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.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

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.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

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

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.

The past is obdurate.

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.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

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.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

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.

I tend to scare myself.