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Quotes by Stephen King


The scariest moment is always just before you start.
– Stephen King
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
– Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
– Stephen King
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
– Stephen King
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
– Stephen King
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
– Stephen King
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
– Stephen King
I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.
– Stephen King
I work until beer o'clock.
– Stephen King
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.
– Stephen King
If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
– Stephen King
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
– Stephen King
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
– Stephen King
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.
– Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
– Stephen King
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
– Stephen King
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
– Stephen King
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
– Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
– Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
– Stephen King
When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, one word at a time.
– Stephen King
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
– Stephen King
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
– Stephen King
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
– Stephen King
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
– Stephen King
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
– Stephen King
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
– Stephen King
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
– Stephen King
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
– Stephen King
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.
– Stephen King
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
– Stephen King
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
– Stephen King
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
– Stephen King
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
– Stephen King
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
– Stephen King
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
– Stephen King
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
– Stephen King
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
– Stephen King
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
– Stephen King
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
– Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
– Stephen King
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
– Stephen King
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
– Stephen King
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
– Stephen King
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
– Stephen King
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
– Stephen King