Stephen King Quotes

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

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

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

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

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Habit is the bed of creativity. Tuck yourself in.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existance was that broken hearts mended.

Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Either get busy living or get busy dying.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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

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

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff.

I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Quiet people have the loudest minds

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

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

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

This is not a bad life.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

People think that I must be a very strange person.

This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

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

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

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

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead.

These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich;

I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything.

Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

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

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.