Get busy living, or get busy dying.
—Stephen King
Topics: Busy
Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.
—Stephen King
Topics: Pain
Love: it’s the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down… bring them low… and make them crawl.
—Stephen King
Topics: Love
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
—Stephen King
Topics: Books
Books are a uniquely portable magic
—Stephen King
Topics: Magic
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
Topics: Atheism
I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
—Stephen King
Topics: Awareness, Talents, Abilities, Self-Knowledge, Work
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy—and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
—Stephen King
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writers, Writing
Because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.
—Stephen King
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
—Stephen King
Topics: Reading, Writers
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
—Stephen King
Topics: Laughter
Love didn’t grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
—Stephen King
Topics: Growth
College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.
—Stephen King
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart
—Stephen King
The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we’re still alive.
—Stephen King
It’s a writer’s job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
—Stephen King
Topics: Words
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
—Stephen King
Topics: Death
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
—Stephen King
Topics: How to Live
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
—Stephen King
Topics: Laughter
It didn’t occur to me until later that there’s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.
—Stephen King
A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.
—Stephen King
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
—Stephen King
Topics: Taxes, Taxation
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just… come out the other side. Or you don’t.
—Stephen King
Topics: Change
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
—Stephen King
Topics: Communication, Words
His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world.
—Stephen King
Topics: Death
We make up horrors to cope with real ones.
—Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
—Stephen King
Topics: Authors & Writing, Fiction
You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
—Stephen King
Topics: Experience
I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries.That’s what Wireman says.
—Stephen King
Topics: Worry
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
—Stephen King
Topics: Hope
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