Quotes from Stephen King

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There's too much wonder, that's all. It's everywhere.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?' - Yes. - My Imagination. - I thought you were going to say Fear, itself. - Then you have a small imagination.

I believe there's another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I'm aware of.

it was more like bleeding than crying.

She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you're still there after all these years. If you're having fun, I am, too.

Henry Thoreau said that we don't own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it's a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

In the end we are reduced to saying It seemed like a good idea at the time .

Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal Once upon a time.

The world's just a hospice with fresh air.

A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.