Stephen King Quotes

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

Above all else, be consistent.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.

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.’

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.