Stephen King Quotes

Resolution demands a sacrifice.

~ Stephen King

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

~ Stephen King

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

~ Stephen King

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

~ Stephen King

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

~ Stephen King

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story...

~ Stephen King

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

~ Stephen King

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

~ Stephen King

I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?

~ Stephen King

Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

~ Stephen King

One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey.

~ Stephen King

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.

~ Stephen King

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

~ Stephen King

A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

~ Stephen King

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

~ Stephen King

I denied Discordia and regret nothing, I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice, I threw my lot with the gunslinger and the White and never once questioned the choice.

~ Stephen King

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

~ Stephen King

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

~ Stephen King

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

~ Stephen King

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

~ Stephen King

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

~ Stephen King

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

~ Stephen King

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

~ Stephen King

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

~ Stephen King

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

~ Stephen King

But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?

~ Stephen King

The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there.

~ Stephen King

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...

~ Stephen King

Some things were better lost than found.

~ Stephen King

Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

~ Stephen King

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

~ Stephen King

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

~ Stephen King

It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

Can I be blunt on this subject? 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 hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

~ Stephen King

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

~ Stephen King

For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...

~ Stephen King