Quotes from Stephen King

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

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

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Time and tide wait for no man.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

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

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

People can be stunningly unobservant.