“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
— Stephen King“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
— Stephen King“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
— Stephen King“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
— Stephen King“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
— Stephen King“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“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
— Stephen King“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
— Stephen King“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
— Stephen King“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
— Stephen King“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.”
— Stephen King“But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”
— Stephen King“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
— Stephen King“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen KingThe trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
— Stephen King