Quotes from Stephen King

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

If," Roland said. "An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.

My grandmother used to say a person shouldn't call out unless they want an answer. I've always thought that was good advice.

Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

There's no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back!

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

College was for people who didn't know they were smart.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come out the other side.

I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man.

The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

Sorry is the KoolAid of human emotions.

Not being sure of things , he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast with no idea at all where they were going.

Let the word and the legend go before you. There are those who will carry both. Fools, perchance. Let the word go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

as if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

Thank God for tunnel vision. Thank God for selective perception. Because without it, we might as well all be in a Lovecraft story.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

El monstruo nunca muere.