Quotes from Stephen King

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.

A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

Nothing screws with memory like repetition.

Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side.

One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.

We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.

She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.

If you love me, then love me.

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?

You say true, I say thankya.

This is nine! Nine! This is nine! Nine! This is ten! Ten! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six! [...] Eighteen! This is now eighteen! Take cover when the siren sounds! This is four! Four! [...] Five! This is five! Ignore the siren! Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room! Eight! This is eight! [...] Six!' the phone screamed. ' Six, this is six, this is goddam fucking SIX!

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

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

I would like to believe in God," she said, "because I don't want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it's to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That's the great Out There. Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Sooner or later, everything old is new again.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.