Stephen King, a master of horror and suspense, has captivated readers with his vivid imagination and compelling storytelling. His quotes reflect his insights on creativity, perseverance, and the human experience, often with a touch of dark humor. Together, they offer inspiration, wisdom, and a glimpse into the mind of one of the most prolific and influential writers of our time.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
From The Stand
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.
From Different Seasons
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
From The Stand
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
From The Dark Tower
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
From The Gunslinger
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.
From Storm of the Century
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
From Hearts in Atlantis
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
From You Like It Darker
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
From The Stand
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.
From Different Seasons
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
From The Stand
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
From The Dark Tower
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
From The Gunslinger
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.
From Storm of the Century
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
From Hearts in Atlantis
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
From You Like It Darker
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
From The Stand
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.
From Different Seasons
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
From The Stand
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
From The Dark Tower
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
From The Gunslinger
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.
From Storm of the Century
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
From Hearts in Atlantis
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
From You Like It Darker
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
