Top 100 King Stephen Quotes
#1. He was a mild man, and gentle and good, and did no justice. [Said of King Stephen, 1135-1154.]
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
#2. King Stephen of Crystallia looked at the impassive face of William, the big, red-headed captain of Candlewax, and resisted the urge to throw something.
C. Bailey Sims
#3. Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
Stephen King
#4. You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
Stephen King
#5. That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
Stephen King
#6. As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
Stephen King
#7. It's true what they say - sometimes the neuros are crazier than the patients.
Stephen King
#8. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Stephen King
#9. If Pete Simmons had been twenty, he might have asked a lot of bullshit questions that didn't matter.
Stephen King
#11. The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition.
Stephen King
#12. I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
Stephen King
#13. The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true
Stephen King
#14. Don't speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville.
Stephen King
#15. Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever.
David Mitchell
#16. I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It's leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you're rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton's gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card.
Stephen King
#17. I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Ernest Cline
#18. Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
Robin Wasserman
#19. By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
Stephen King
#20. She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.
Stephen King
#21. Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.
Stephen King
#22. Abruptly he started the car and put it in gear and drove away, trying not to look back. And of course he did, and of course the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.
Stephen King
#23. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
Stephen King
#24. You should never trust a person who prays in public.
Stephen King
#25. The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.
Stephen King
#26. Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match.
Stephen King
#27. Now stop fucking around and look at the fishies. You know you want to.
Stephen King
#28. 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
#29. the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The
Stephen King
#30. They no longer saw themselves as doers or avengers or saviors; the day had absorbed them. Helplessly, they were only living.
Stephen King
#31. The soul of a man such as you can never leave the west.
Stephen King
#33. Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation -
Stephen King
#34. It was a thing as alien to this place and time as true love, and yet as concrete as a Judgment,
Stephen King
#35. Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.
Stephen King
#36. A man named Stephen King. Do you know that name? And saw by Cullum's eyes that he did.
Stephen King
#37. Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.
Stephen King
#38. We've become so used to the idea of the flu - it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it? - that no one but the historians seems to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist.
Stephen King
#39. It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives.
Stephen King
#40. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
Stephen King
#41. I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.
Stephen King
#42. Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.
Stephen King
#44. J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
Ashwin Sanghi
#45. Her heart was pounding hard, not with excitement but with fear. The head could tell the heart all that was eighteen years over, but in matters of emotion the heart had its own brilliant vocabulary.
Stephen King
#46. Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ... Sometimes he makes us live.
Stephen King
#47. got to be regular if you want to be happy,
Stephen King
#48. It's been nice to see you again. Another of those things you just say, a bit of grease to keep the wheels turning,
Stephen King
#49. God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.
Stephen King
#50. It's God's nature to come on in the bottom of the ninth, Tom had told her.
Stephen King
#51. If they're old enough to pee, they're old enough for me.
Stephen King
#52. God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's hard to hear a small voice clearly if you're shitass drunk most of the time.
Stephen King
#53. While, as we did before, with a broken circle. I think It will kill us, one by one by one, and probably in some extremely horrible ways. As children we made a complete circle in some way I don't understand even now. I think that, if we agree to
Stephen King
#54. Babineau was always intense, but these days he's downright weird.
Stephen King
#56. The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
Stephen King
#57. The screen blanked, then produced a book cover. The jacket image - in black-and-white - showed barking dogs surrounding a scarecrow. In the background, shoulders slumped in a posture of weariness or defeat (or both), was a hunter with a gun. The eponymous Cortland, probably.
Stephen King
#58. Pain is the biggest power of love. That's what Wireman says.
Stephen King
#59. Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
William H. Macy
#60. She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
Stephen King
#61. Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.
Stephen King
#62. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.
Stephen King
#63. What are the differences between me and you, I stand up and continue you just stay down and don't move and you think that nobody will touch. But when you are down, you always easy to be attacked - You will find down "IT" :D :D
Deyth Banger
#64. The fox who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger.
Stephen King
#65. Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret.
Stephen King
#66. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in.
Stephen King
#67. Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?
Stephen King
#68. Life was a wheel, and it always came back around.
Stephen King
#70. The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.
Stephen King
#71. If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy's head explodes.
Stephen King
#72. I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?
Alexander Koch
#73. I'm going to kill you, you lying cocksucker. -Annie Wilks
Stephen King
#74. Little changes at first, maybe, but as the Bruce Springsteen song tells us, from small things, baby, big things one day come. They might be good changes, ones
Stephen King
#75. Who would preach at the funeral? This was a question (like who cuts the barber's hair)
Stephen King
#76. The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
Stephen King
#77. I want him to know the game is over. No more Castles. The real gunslingers are here. Let's see if he can deal with them.
Stephen King
#78. I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream!
Deyth Banger
#79. Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.
Stephen King
#80. Once upon a bye, before your grandfather's grandfather was born, on the edge of an unexplored wilderness called the Endless Forest, there lived a boy named Tim
Stephen King
#81. Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King
#82. I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?
Stephen King
#83. Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance of being earnest.
Stephen King
#84. 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.
Stephen King
#85. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.
Stephen King
#86. It's always the end for now, and in real life, the only full stop is on the obituary page.
Stephen King
#87. He understood very little about this strange situation, and to act in a situation one does not understand is to invite the most terrible consequences.
Stephen King
#88. I got a lion on my back because I'm a Leo, and I also just love lions. But I wish I'd researched the artwork a little more. My little sister saw it and said, "Why do you have the Lion King on your back?"
Stephen Dorff
#89. He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.
Stephen King
#90. God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ...
Stephen King
#91. Could she lay hope to rest or did she have to carry it yet awhile longer?
Stephen King
#92. But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Stephen King
#93. She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
Stephen King
#94. The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy.
Stephen King
#97. God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
Stephen King
#98. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there, because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Bangor,
Stephen King
#99. Billy was walking up the hall, buckling his belt. His tanned face was now sallow and wet with sweat. He says there's a bulge in my aorta. Like a bubble in a car tire. Only car tires don't yell when you poke em.
Stephen King
#100. For every thing you find that's of comfort...there are two with the power to hurt.
Stephen King
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