Stephen King
343 quotes
Biography
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
"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."
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."
"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger."
"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."
"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."