Stephen King Quotes
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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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More Stephen King Quotes
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King— Time (October 6, 1986)
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)
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 believe there is an unseen world all around us.
Stephen King— 1993 Nightmares and Dreamscapes, introduction.
I work until beer o'clock.
Stephen King— On his 9 to 5 writing day, as quoted in Time (6 October 1986)
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.
The past is obdurate.
Stephen King— (2011) 11/22/63. : Repeated line
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
Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?
Stephen King— Frannie (The Stand (1978))
M-O-O-N, that spells ILLEGAL!
Stephen King— Tom Cullen (The Stand (1978))
There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.
Stephen King— The Stand (Uncut), Chapter 55 p. 799 (1990)
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
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
Stephen King— Epilogue (Christine (1983))
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
Stephen King— Stephen King in introduction.
Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
Stephen King— Jud, to Louis
Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better.
Stephen King— Jud, to Louis
Some things it don't pay to be curious about.
Stephen King— Jud, to Louis
+ :; = INFORMATION
Stephen King— Brautigan's inscription in a 1960 edition of Lord of the Flies, in Hearts in Atlantis, § 42
I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker .
Stephen King— Bobby, in Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling
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)
There are a great many ways to commit suicide, you know.
Stephen King— Stephen King, The Stand (Uncut), chapter 55, p. 799, unidentified edition
A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
Stephen King— Stephen King, Firestarter.
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
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)
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
