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Quotes by Stephen King

Stephen King

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

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

Am I weird?Yeah. But so what? Everybodys weird.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

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.

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

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

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.

That wasnt any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesnt belong in a smart peoples club.

Oh shit, the mummys after us, lets all walk a little faster

Murder is like potato chips: you cant stop with just one.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.