Quotes from Stephen King

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

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.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Weird love's better than no love at all.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

On the subject of love at first sight, I'm with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

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

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

The truth is in the details.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.