Stephen King Quotes
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies,many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
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.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
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.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
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