Stephen King Quotes

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

"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."

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

"When asked, "How do you write?"I invariably answer, "One word at a time,"and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."

"When asked, "How do you write?"I invariably answer, "One word at a time,"and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."

"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."

"And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that."

"And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that."

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."

"If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?"

"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something"