Quotes from Stephen King

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.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.

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

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.