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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.”
― Richard Dawkins

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

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

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“I don't like people. They fuck me up.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”
― Stephen King