Stephen King Quotes
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Time (October 6, 1986) 
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If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.
Stephen King— "My Book About A Really Mean Car That Kills People Was Pretty Scary. But Not As Scary As Those Scary Republicans", The Gaggle, Newsweek (24 October 2006)
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen King— Pt. 1, Ch. 5
Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King— "Luckey Quarter", p. 457
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
Stephen King— From his book Wolves of the Calla (2003).
I work until beer o'clock.
Stephen King— On his 9 to 5 writing day, as quoted in Time (6 October 1986)
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force .
Stephen King— The Politics of Limited Editions essay in Castle Rock| Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 6 (June 1985), republished in various real world publications, including The Stephen King Story (1992) by George W. Beahm, p. 112
President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun-lobby and America's love of violent movies while he rains bombs on Yugoslavia, where at least twenty noncombatants have already died for every innocent student at Columbine High. It is like listening to a man with a crack-pipe in his hand lecture children about the evils of drugs .
Stephen King— Keynote Address, Vermont Library Conference, VEMA Annual Meeting, (26 May 1999)
YouTube is very addictive. I refused to put it on my favorite places because it's too easy to go there.
Stephen King— YouTube video
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.
There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.
Stephen King— The Stand (Uncut), Chapter 55 p. 799 (1990)
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
Stephen King— The Stand (Uncut), Preface (part 2) (1990)
Either get busy living or get busy dying
Stephen King— Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen King— Rita Hayworth and Shawshank RedemptionSometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Has it ever occurred to you...that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
Stephen King— Christine, Part 1, Chapter 3 (1983).
I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids...Because as soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that you're going to die. When you have a kid, you see your own gravestone.
Stephen King— Pt. 1, Ch. 3
Some things it don't pay to be curious about.
Stephen King— Jud, to Louis
Love is like dying.
Stephen King— February
The smoking butt end of the year, November's dark iron has come to Tarker's Mills.
Stephen King— November (Cycle of the Werewolf (1983))
Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.
Stephen King— The Voice of The Turtle
We all float down here!
Stephen King— Pennywise (IT (1986))
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
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)
America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.
Stephen King— Busted, 16, p. 803 (First Scribner hardcover edition November 2009)
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
Stephen King— Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen King— Stephen King, in On Writing : A Memoir Of The Craft (2000), p. 96.
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen King— Narration; Stephen King, Christine, Part 1, Chapter 5.
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
