Quotes by Stephen King

“Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought”

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs”

“The trust of the innocent is the liars most useful tool.”

“...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”

“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.”

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“Its better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.”

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.”

“If I cannot horrify, Ill go for the gross-out. Im not proud.”

“I work until beer oclock.”

“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.”

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

“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...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”

“You couldnt get hold of the things youd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”

“The devils voice is sweet to hear.”

“...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

“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, Theres just something about you that pisses me off”

“Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.”