Top 44 Stephen King Quotes

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 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.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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.

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

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

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.

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

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?

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

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

The devil‘s voice is sweet to hear.

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

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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.

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

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

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.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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

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

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.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

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.’

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

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

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

This is not a bad life.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

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.

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.

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.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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.