Stephen King Quotes

   1947 -

US author,  known for his highly  suspenseful horror  novels.  His works  include  Carrie  (1974), The Shining  (1976),  Misery  (1988) and Bag of Bones (1998).

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If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Pt. 1, Ch. 5

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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Stephen King
— Time (October 6, 1986)

Tags: Funny, romance, French, language, turns, dirt

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Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.

Stephen King
— "Luckey Quarter", p. 457

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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Stephen King
— From his book Wolves of the Calla (2003).

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I believe there is an unseen world all around us.

Stephen King
— 1993  Nightmares and Dreamscapes, introduction.

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I work until beer o'clock.

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— On his 9 to 5 writing day, as quoted in Time (6 October 1986)

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On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.

Stephen King
— (2000). "Interview: Stephen King". The Guardian.

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The past is obdurate.

Stephen King
— (2011) 11/22/63. : Repeated line

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Afterward Larry felt as if he had been through a long pillow-fight in which all the pillows had been treated with a low-grade poison gas.

Stephen King
— Larry Underwood, Page 36

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Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?

Stephen King
— Frannie (The Stand (1978))

Tags: you, know, Dairy, Queen, ice, cream, bubbles

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M-O-O-N, that spells ILLEGAL!

Stephen King
— Tom Cullen (The Stand (1978))

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There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

Stephen King
— The Stand (Uncut), Chapter 55 p. 799 (1990)

Tags: Suicide, There, great, ways, commit, you, know, stand

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

Stephen King
— The Stand (Uncut), Preface (part 2) (1990)

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A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

Stephen King
— Epilogue (Christine (1983))

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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

Stephen King
— Stephen King in introduction.

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Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Stephen King
— Jud, to Louis

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Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better.

Stephen King
— Jud, to Louis

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Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

Stephen King
— Jud, to Louis

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Love is like dying.

Stephen King
— February

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The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst for me, at least is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

Stephen King
— Introduction

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+ :; = INFORMATION

Stephen King
— Brautigan's inscription in a 1960 edition of Lord of the Flies, in Hearts in Atlantis, § 42

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I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker .

Stephen King
— Bobby, in Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling

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Alice had managed to get herself back under some sort of control, but it was thin. Thin enough to read a newspaper through , his bingo-playing mother might have said. Although a kid herself, Alice had managed to keep herself shiny-side up mostly for the other kid's sake, so he wouldn't give way entirely.

Stephen King
— Gaiten Academy, ch. 24

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He told himself that everything was fine he only had to look at the sleeping dog on the floor if he doubted but in the middle of the night it was hard to be an optimist. When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

Stephen King
— Nyuck-Nyuck-Nyuck, 11, p. 286-287 (First Scribner hardcover edition November 2009)

Tags: himself, everything, look, sleeping, dog, floor, doubted, middle, night

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There are a great many ways to commit suicide, you know.

Stephen King
— Stephen King, The Stand (Uncut), chapter 55, p. 799, unidentified edition

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A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

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— Stephen King, Firestarter.

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When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

Stephen King
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Vol I: The Gunslinger

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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other... except through faith.

Stephen King
— Stephen King, Danse Macabre (1981)

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

Stephen King
— American horror fiction author

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I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day . . . fifty the day after that . . . and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s — GASP!! — too late.

Stephen King
— From On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft

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