Stephen King Quotes
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
The only real things are the things that happen to you.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.
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…or change.
In every interview I’m asked what’s the most important quality a writer can have. The answer is persistence.
I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better.
The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.
You cannot prove absence. You don’t have to defend a milkshake.
People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.
The basis of all human fears may be the fear of death.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
We are freer to choose our own actions than we are to choose our own consequences.
Everything’s eventual.
There is no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
The most successful men and women are those who can dream out loud.
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word, and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Recognize and accept that challenges will always be present. That is what makes life exciting. If there were no challenges, there would be no reason to get out of bed in the morning.
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.’
In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.
The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other … except through faith.
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
The most important lessons have to be learned alone.
The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise.
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
There’s nothing like terror for an appetite.
Sooner or later, everything old is new again.
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned into an original work.
The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.
It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.