Quotes By Stephen King

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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."

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

This is not a bad life.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.