Stephen King Quotes
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”
Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
“Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.”
Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
Source: The Drawing of the Three
“I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”
Stephen King book Needful Things
Source: Needful Things
Stephen King book It
Page 1087
Source: It (1986)
Context: Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question...So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away...drive away from Derry, from memory...but not from desire. That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even when we were lost and the wind blew in the night. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.
Context: So you leave, and there is an urge to look back, to look back just once as the sunset fades, to see that severe New England skyline one final time... Best not to look back. Best to believe that there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question... So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away... drive away from Derry, from memory... but not from desire. That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even when we were lost and the wind blew in the night. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”
Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Variant: Either get busy living or get busy dying
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King book 11/22/63
Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
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“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”
Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
Stephen King book The Stand
Source: The Stand
