Stephen King
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.Collection: Book
Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.Collection: Cutting
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.Collection: Change
That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.Collection: Pain
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.Collection: Reality
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.Collection: Potato Chips
Black as night and as beautiful as forever.Collection: Beautiful
You have to go where the book leads you.Collection: Book
I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.Collection: Weed
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?Collection: Ifs
There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.Collection: Writing
Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.Collection: Tahiti
It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.Collection: Pain
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.Collection: Believe
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.Collection: Imagination
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.Collection: Hurt
Art should be a place of hope.Collection: Art
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.Collection: May
Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.Collection: Ocean
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.Collection: Littles
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.Collection: Book
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Way
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?Collection: Art
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.Collection: Fool
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.Collection: Dream
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.Collection: Stories
For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.Collection: Men
And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretendCollection: Men
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.Collection: Thinking
So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.Collection: Hurt
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armorCollection: Sarcastic
She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.Collection: Light
Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.Collection: Baby
Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.Collection: Thinking
I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?Collection: Heart
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this oneCollection: Mother
The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.Collection: Crazy
Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.Collection: Talking
Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.Collection: Pride
Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.Collection: Home
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?Collection: Cat
Life turns on a dime.Collection: Dimes
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.Collection: Ideas
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.Collection: Past
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.Collection: Might
I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.Collection: Towers
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.Collection: Might
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.Collection: Kings