Quotes by Stephen King

There was nothing … and nothing … and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis’s head was gone.

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.

Womens lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldnt get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

Show me a man or a woman alone and Ill show you a saint. Give me two and theyll fall in love. Give me three and theyll invent the charming thing we call society. Give me four and theyll build a pyramid. Give me five and theyll make one an outcast. Give me six and theyll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years theyll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Well just have to get along. Thats what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldnt bring yourself to do.

Dont think I know you, Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larrys hand was pumped up and down exactly three times and let go. It reminded Larry of the time he had shaken hands with George Bush back when the old bushwhacker had been running for President. It had been at a political rally, which he had attended on the advice of his mother, given many years ago. If you cant afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you cant afford the zoo, go see a politician.

A person cant change all at once.

A man who doubts himself shouldnt have to try too hard for too long, not until hes seasoned.

She looks like the type that might freak out. Its something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, Ill shoot yours.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that cant be found.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, dont we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

Lucks the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.