Stephen King Quotes:
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.
Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
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?
Stephen King
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.
Stephen King
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King
If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King
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.
Stephen King
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.’
Stephen King
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.
Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’
Stephen King
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
Stephen King
The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen King
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.
Stephen King
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King