Stephen King Quotes

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

~ Stephen King

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

~ Stephen King

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

~ Stephen King

You play the game to the end. That’s how it works, play to the end.

~ Stephen King

In the end, we wear out our worries.

~ Stephen King

I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

~ Stephen King

Never give a good politician time to pray.

~ Stephen King

...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt

~ Stephen King

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

~ Stephen King

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.

~ Stephen King

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

~ Stephen King

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

~ Stephen King

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

~ Stephen King

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

~ Stephen King

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

~ 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

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

~ 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

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

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

~ Stephen King

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

~ 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

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

~ 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

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

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

~ 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

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

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

~ 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

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

~ Stephen King

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

~ 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 never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

~ Stephen King