Stephen King Quotes (302 Quotes)


    ...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.


    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.

    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

    Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.


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

    The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

    I think for many people there'll be no middle ground.

    You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is her dying declaration 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

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

    The good news is more rate cuts are on the way. The bad news is the economy is weaker and that will put pressure on earnings.

    There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

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

    All signals are that European growth is slowing, however, the euro zone will avoid a hard landing, compared with the U.S., which has a lot of structural imbalances brought on by a boom cycle.


    Other times I think about them, though all this October I have done so, it seems, because October is the time when men think mostly about far places and the roads which might get them there. I sit on the bench in front of Bell's Market and think about Homer Buckland and about the beautiful girl who leaned over to open his door when he come down that path with the full red gasoline can in his right hand she looked like a girl of no more than sixteen, a girl on her learner's permit, and her beauty was terrible, but I believe it would no longer kill the man it turned itself on for a moment her eyes lit on me, I was not killed, although part of me died at her feet.

    This is an area that has been overlooked by the sector. The media is often seen in negative terms, but it can have a positive impact by extending the reach of worthwhile projects and ensuring more people hear about them.

    The equipment comes with the original package.

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


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

    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.

    My heart was pounding, and I was sweating like I was there.


    Buyer should be aware that 'CELL' is a violent piece of work, which comes complete with zombies set in motion by bad cell phone signals that destroy the human brain.

    I had seven minutes permanently burned out of my memory (when the van hit). I did get one back of the guy coming over the hill heading toward me. It's like a coral islet in the sea. ... I have no idea if (the story) is any good, but what the h--l, I like it.

    It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

    I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. You Know They've Got A Hell Of A Band in Nightmares and Dreamscapes

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

    Pay and the story rolls, ... Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

    Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk.

    Must you write complete sentences each time, every time Perish the thought

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

    At this time the agency is not releasing any specifics of that investigation in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation.

    There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

    I want some sort of guarantee that Mr. Harmon is going to do his time in Montana.

    I don't take notes I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

    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.

    The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

    A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

    I felt rather like the little girl in Our Town who gave her address as Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, America, the Nothern Hemisphere, the World, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Mind of God.

    So will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon.

    French is the language that turns dirt into romance.


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

    Publicly, I have always expressed a great deal of confidence in human nature, but in private I have wondered if anybody would ever pay for anything on the Net, ... It now looks as though people will, and I am faced with the real possibility of finishing 'The Plant.'

    There is some concern that a 50 basis point rate cut could lead to inflation rising (in the U.S.) later this year,

    Congress and the public have made it clear they expect the FDA to ensure the lowest risk feasible concerning transmission of serious infectious diseases by donated blood and blood components.

    Just go on dancing with me like this forever, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

    I wasn't going to stand our here listening to those quarrelling voices in my head. If I wasn't crazy--and I didn't think I was--listening to those contentious assholes would probably send me there, and by the express.


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