Quotes By Stephen King

We're news junkies in my house.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

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

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

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.

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.

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.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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.

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.

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 am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

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

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