Quotes from Stephen King

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.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

no knowledge obtained without risk

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.