Quotes By Stephen King

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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.

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.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

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, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."

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.

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.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

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

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

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.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.