We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
Stephen King
Get it done! Then let them laugh.
Stephen King
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
Stephen King
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Stephen King
Change is inevitable, just like the changing seasons. Embrace it, or it will devour you.
Stephen King
Fear is a powerful tool, but it can also be debilitating. Use it to your advantage, but don't let it control you.
Stephen King
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself.
Stephen King
First drafts are for your head, second drafts are for your heart, and third drafts are for your stomach.
Stephen King
I write for my readers, but I have to love the story myself first. Then the love becomes contagious.
Stephen King
The stories you write can stay with people long after they've finished reading them. Make them count.
Stephen King
Read like a writer. Pay attention to what makes you laugh, cry, or scared. Analyze why it works.
Stephen King
Write the story you want to read.
Stephen King
Suspense is withholding what the reader wants to know in order to make them want it more.
Stephen King
Setting isn't just where the story takes place, it's a character in itself. It should be alive and breathing.
Stephen King
The scariest thing is always just before you start.
Stephen King
Everybody is talented at something. The point is to find out what that is and keep doing it.
Stephen King
Readers come to books with their own baggage of experiences. It's the writer's job to open a door, not build a wall.
Stephen King
Monsters are real and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
We owe it to ourselves to live the best lives we can. To tell the stories that need to be told.
Stephen King
Fear and laughter walk hand in hand.
Stephen King
Setting is an important character in any story.
Stephen King
First drafts are for learning, second drafts are for thinking, third drafts are for polishing.
Stephen King
There are worse things than ghosts in this world, things that don't vanish in the morning sunlight.
Stephen King
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
It's never too late to do the right thing.
Stephen King
Love is a battlefield.
Stephen King
Friends are the best kind of ghosts.
Stephen King
Sometimes you can't outrun the darkness. You have to face it, or it will eat you alive.
Stephen King
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen King
Sooner or later, everything you love will die.
Stephen King