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“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

Stephen King book Skeleton Crew

Source: Skeleton Crew

“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“Grammar is… the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“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.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.”

“Talk had faded with the daylight. The silence that set in was oppressive. The encroaching dark, the groundmist collecting into small, curdled pools…for the first time it seemed perfectly real and totally unnatural, and he wanted either Jan or his mother, some woman, and he wondered what in the hell he was doing and how he ever could have gotten involved. He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn't even done it alone. There were currently ninety-five other fools in this parade.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

The Long Walk (1979)

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

Stephen King book The Body

Source: The Body

“It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.”

Stephen King Storm of the Century

Source: Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay

“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”

Stephen King book Needful Things

Source: Needful Things

“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”

Stephen King book The Body

Source: The Body

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary (1983)
Context: It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls - as little as one may like to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself.

“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

“I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say”

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft