Stephen King Quotes

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Above all else, be consistent.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

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

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.