Quotes from Stephen King

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I tend to scare myself.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

I have spent a good many years since?too many, I think?being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Do you drink? Of course,I just said I was a writer.

A person can't change all at once.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

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

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.

I write to find out what I think.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.