Quotes from Stephen King

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?

The most important things are the hardest to say

Home is where they want you to stay longer.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather? He stared at me, baffled. Why the fuck would you do that?

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

Invitation to Dance- It's a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we'll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear