Quotes from Stephen King

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

I write for love, but love doesn't pay the bills.

when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ".

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together.

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

It doesn't have to be the last good time. But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.

When an old man dies, a library burns.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.