Famous Quotes by Stephen King

“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 King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Stephen King