quotes by Stephen King

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Get busy living or get busy dying"
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

"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."
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— Stephen King

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1))

"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. (from the introduction) "
— Stephen King (Skeleton Crew)

"I have the heart of a child... sitting in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

"I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1))

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
— Stephen King

"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."
— Stephen King

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
— Stephen King

"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."
— Stephen King

"Humor is almost always anger with it's make up on. ~Mike Noonan/ Bag of Bones."
— Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

"Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that 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 it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
— Stephen King

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."
— Stephen King

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
— Stephen King

"I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!"
— Stephen King (Needful Things)

"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