Quotes from Stephen King

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

He killed them with their love.

Lover, " she whispers, and closes her eyes.It falls upon her.Love is like dying.

Your hair is winter fire, January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.