Quotes from Stephen King

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

True love always happens in a flash.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

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 A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.

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.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.