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“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It (1986)

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”

Stephen King The Tommyknockers

Source: The Tommyknockers

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

Stephen King book The Shining

The Shining (1977)

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

Variant: The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

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

Source: Wolves of the Calla

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Sometimes, Delores, you have to be a high riding bitch in order to survive, because being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to..”

Stephen King book Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne (1992)

“The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

The Green Mile (1996)
Context: "He kill them with they love", John said. "They love for each other. You see how it was?" I nodded, incapable of speech.
He smiled. The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."

“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.”

Stephen King book Revival

Variant: Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
Source: Revival

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. […] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

“May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.”

Stephen King book It

It (1986)

“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”

Stephen King book Christine

Source: Christine

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird”

Stephen King book The Body

Source: The Body