Quotes

“I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.” Stephen King

“You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.” Stephen King

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” Stephen King

“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.” Stephen King

“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

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

“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.” Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” Stephen King

“I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.” Stephen King

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.” Stephen King

“Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

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

“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.” Stephen King

“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

“This is not a bad life.” Stephen King

“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. 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?” Stephen King

“No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King

“It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.” Stephen King

“I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.” Stephen King

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

“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.” Stephen King

“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.” Stephen King