Stephen King Quotes

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

~ Stephen King

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

~ Stephen King

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

~ Stephen King

Do you drink?Of course,I just said I was a writer.

~ Stephen King

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.

~ Stephen King

Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs

~ Stephen King

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

~ Stephen King

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

~ Stephen King

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full

~ Stephen King

Here's what vampires shouldn't be: pallid detectives that drink Bloody Marys and work only at night; lovelorn southern gentlemen; anorexic teenage girls; boy-toys with big dewy eyes. What should they be? Killers, honey. Stone killers that can't get enough of that tasty Type-A. Bad boys and girls. Hunters. In other words, Midnight America. Red, white and blue, accent on the red. Those vamps got hijacked by a lot of soft-focus ro

~ Stephen King

In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters?

~ Stephen King

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

~ Stephen King

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen, the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

~ Stephen King

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

~ Stephen King

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

~ Stephen King

It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything.

~ Stephen King

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high: purpose, maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use. It was no big deal; it didn't go all at once, with a bang. And maybe, Richie thought, that's the scary part. How you didn't stop being a kid all at once, with a big explosive bang, like one of that clown's trick balloons. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air of a tire.

~ Stephen King

No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.

~ Stephen King

Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.

~ Stephen King

I am what you might call a rambling man, and America is my beat.

~ Stephen King

Tim stared at the steel rod in the gloved hand. Is that a magic wand?The Covenant Man appeared to consider. I suppose so. Although it started life as the gearshift of a Dodge Dart, America's economy car, young Tim.What's America?A kingdom filled with toy-loving idiots. It has no part in our palaver.

~ Stephen King

. . . On either side of them the essence of honky tonk beach resort had now enclosed them: gas stations, fried clam stands, Dairy Treets, motels painted in feverish pastel colors, mini golf. “Larry was drawn two painful ways by these things. Part of him clamored at their sad and blatant ugliness and at the ugliness of the minds that had turned this section of a magnificent, savage coastline into one long highway amusement park for families in station wagons. But there was a more subtle, deeper part of him that whispered of the people who had filled these places and this road during other summers. Ladies in sunhats and shorts too tight for their large behinds. College boys in red and black striped rugby shirts. Girls in beach shifts and thong sandals. Small screaming children with ice cream spread over their faces. They were American people, and there was a kind of dirty, compelling romance about them whenever they were in groups never mind if the group was in an Aspen ski lodge or performing their prosaic/ arcane rites of summer along Route 1 in Maine. And now all these Americans were gone. . . . Stephen King, from The Stand p. 303 304

~ Stephen King

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

~ Stephen King

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.

~ Stephen King

He felt gladness roar through his soul.

~ Stephen King

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.

~ Stephen King

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

~ Stephen King

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a Face forming in lines of fire.

~ Stephen King

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

~ Stephen King

You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.

~ Stephen King

Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

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Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were all around, but living people saw them no more than they could smell most of the ten thousand aromas that surrounded them every minute of every day.

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The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

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Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.

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Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

~ Stephen King

My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

~ Stephen King

Do you believe in an afterlife? the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. I think this is it.

~ Stephen King

I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

~ Stephen King

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

~ Stephen King