Quotes from Stephen King

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world 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.

Alone.Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Only God gets things right the first time.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

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

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Time is a face on the water.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.