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 road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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.

Either get busy living or get busy dying.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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

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

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

Quiet people have the loudest minds

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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

There are no exceptions to this rule.

(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.

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.

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

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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.

This is not a bad life.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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.