Top 1360 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen King - Page 2

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.

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.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

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

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Time's the thief of memory

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Dreams age faster than dreamers.

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

The most important things are the hardest to say

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

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.