Quotes from Stephen King

God the Creator had made man in His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God's light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. The black man wanted—was able—only to unshape.

Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out.

When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

He's not my biggest fan right now. He's probably even deleted me from his Facebook page.

Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don't know the nature of the beast it will eat you up.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

The day will never come in when I lose enough respect for my own hide to shit on a Texan's mother, Stuart.

Grief is like a drunken houseguest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments.

Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you'll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That's not pessimism talking, just logic.

Childhood itself is a myth for almost all of us. We think we remember what happens to us when we were kids, but we don't.

Lorsque tout va mal, laissez tomber et allez à la bibliothèque.

I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.

I don't think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world, but I wanted to get up to ninety-eight.

Business is like football, Craig. If you have to knock someone down to reach the goal line, you better damn well do it, or you shouldn't put on a uniform and go out on the field in the first place.

We turn from all we know and all we fear.

I'm a defense lawyer, son. I can believe anything.

real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.

remember the simplest thing of all: how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.

Where do I get my ideas? The more pertinent question is…how do I make them stop?