Quotes from Stephen King

And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

He killed them with their love

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

The past is obdurate.

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

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they don't have time to read. This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Weird love's better than no love at all.

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