Stephen King Quotes

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“Adults are the real monsters.”

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”

“Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.”

“Beyond the reach of human rage
A drop of hell, a touch of strange…”

“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead”

“We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.”

“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.”

“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”

“And then the world exploded.”

“I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.”

“Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.”

“There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.”

“They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.”

“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”

“What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.”

“I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.”

“There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”

“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”

“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”

“My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”

“I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.”

“When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.”

“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”

“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“There had never been a shortage of fools in the world”

“Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.”

“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”

“It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.”

“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend”

“FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying”

“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”

“Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?”

“no one dies happy, you can only die well”

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.”

“I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle”

“It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.”

“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”

“Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.”

“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”

“Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.”

“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”

“If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.”

“There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But… this is what God wants of you.”

“There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

“The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.”