Quotes from Stephen King

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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.

This is not a bad life.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

Money can't buy off the lightning.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

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

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.