Quotes from Stephen King

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Life turns on a dime.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

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

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.