Quotes from Stephen King

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success

You know what, kid? It's guys like you who give reading a bad name.

even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope.

A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.

In our world you got your mystery and suspense stories . . . your science fiction stories . . . your Westerns . . . your fairy tales. Get it?" "Yes," Roland said. "Do people in your world always want only one story-flavor at a time? Only one taste in their mouths?" "I guess that's close enough," Susannah said. "Does no one eat stew?" Roland asked.

Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self.

It's best to be ruthless with the past. It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there," Hardy supposedly said, "the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel is but a bag of bones." I understood because that was what I felt like in those interminable, dissembling days: a bag of bones.

losers so dumb that they mistook wrapping themselves in the chains of addiction as an act of rebellion.

You're my big brother. I knew you'd take care of me.

I felt comfortable as only one can on such a night, when all is miserable outside and all is warmth and comfort inside.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

The Internet is a bright house standing above a dark cellar with a dirt floor. Falsehoods sprout like mushrooms in that cellar.

I got a scribbled comment that changed the way I rewrote my fiction once and forever. Jotted below the machine-generated signature of the editor was this mot: "Not bad, but PUFFY. You need to revise for length. Formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%. Good luck.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.

Some nightmares never completely ended.

El pesar auténtico es tan escaso como el amor auténtico.

The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening.

Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.

Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into . . . the Roland Zone!

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do.