Quotes by Stephen King

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Eighty percent of success is just showing up.

Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

He felt gladness roar through his soul.

You ought to sue that son of a whore

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

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

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

I write to find out what I think.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

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

There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Fear is the basis of all crime. But so is an unreasonable fear.

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

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

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

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, or making friends. It’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.

Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Get it done! Then let them laugh.

It's a dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we'll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the dark. Especially in the dark.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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

The stories we tell shape the world around us. Choose your words wisely.

Even in the darkest of times, there is always hope. Never give up.

Change is inevitable, just like the changing seasons. Embrace it, or it will devour you.

Laughter is the best medicine, even when it's dark laughter.

Fear is a powerful tool, but it can also be debilitating. Use it to your advantage, but don't let it control you.

A good story is like a dream that doesn't quite end when you wake up.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself.

First drafts are for your head, second drafts are for your heart, and third drafts are for your stomach.

Books are the perfect escape, not from reality, but into a larger and richer one.

I write for my readers, but I have to love the story myself first. Then the love becomes contagious.

The stories you write can stay with people long after they've finished reading them. Make them count.

Read like a writer. Pay attention to what makes you laugh, cry, or scared. Analyze why it works.

Don't be afraid of criticism. Learn from it and grow as a writer.

Write the story you want to read.

Genre is simply a way of classifying stories. It doesn't have to limit you.

Suspense is withholding what the reader wants to know in order to make them want it more.

Setting isn't just where the story takes place, it's a character in itself. It should be alive and breathing.

The more real your characters are, the more the reader will care about them, the more invested they will be in the story.

You can't fake passion. The audience will see right through it.

Sometimes you have to face your fears to get rid of them, but you have to get rid of your fears before you can face them.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

There's something good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less inclined to hurt one another.

The scariest thing is always just before you start.

Everybody is talented at something. The point is to find out what that is and keep doing it.

Deep down, I think we're all just a bunch of scared monkeys huddled together in the dark. My job is to show people the darkness.

Readers come to books with their own baggage of experiences. It's the writer's job to open a door, not build a wall.

I write best when I'm scared. That's when my imagination works best.

I think we're all afraid of the same things, just in different shades.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

We owe it to ourselves to live the best lives we can. To tell the stories that need to be told.

It is not about winning or losing. It is about never giving up.

Readers don't care if you know the rules. They care if you know how to bend them.

Fear and laughter walk hand in hand.

Suspense is like a good wine. It gets better with age.

Setting is an important character in any story.

Characters are the heart of any story. Without them, you have nothing.

Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is look for them.

First drafts are for learning, second drafts are for thinking, third drafts are for polishing.

There are worse things than ghosts in this world, things that don't vanish in the morning sunlight.

Death isn't the end. It's just the beginning of the next chapter.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

It's never too late to do the right thing.

Sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself.

Forgiveness is the hardest lesson to learn, but it's also the most important.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

Love is a battlefield.

Friends are the best kind of ghosts.

Sometimes you can't outrun the darkness. You have to face it, or it will eat you alive.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

Sooner or later, everything you love will die.

The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness to another, remembering little of the one, and knowing nothing of the other.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

It’s a dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the dark. Especially in the dark.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better.

Friends come and go, like the waves of the ocean, but the true ones stay like an octopus on your face.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Darkness can be found anywhere. It's where you look for it.

Books are uniquely portable magic.

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

The more you love something the more vulnerable you are.

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