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Stephen King Quotes

Total quotes: 136
“I have no tolerance for the unexplainable.”
— Ralph Anderson, The Outsider, Season 1: Dark Uncle
Tagged: Tolerance, Unexplainable, declare
“What if you're making a worse mistake by keeping this going.”
— Jeannie Anderson, The Outsider, Season 1: The One About the Yiddish Vampire
Tagged: mistake, worry, Advice
“I don't like guessing games.”
— Holly Gibney, The Outsider, Season 1: The One About the Yiddish Vampire
Tagged: Games, guessing, tricks
“Getting the goods on the fucking Boogyman, that's your plan?”
— Glory Maitland, The Outsider, Season 1: The One About the Yiddish Vampire
Tagged: Boogyman , upset, angry
“I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it. I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.”
— Stephen King, An Interview with Stephen King
Tagged: Stephen King, Horror, Good vs. Evil, Evil, macabre
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
— Stephen King, Stephen King from A to Z: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Work
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.”
— Stephen King, Cell
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“I work until beer o'clock.”
— Stephen King, Time (6 October 1986)
Tagged: creepy, Work, Beer, Drinking, Writing
“There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: creepy, Suicide, Killing Yourself, spooky
“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
— Stephen King, Desperation
Tagged: creepy, cruel, Cruelty, God, live, Life, Living
“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”
— Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, Stephen King Quotes
“There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”
— Stephen King, Pet Sematary
Tagged: Risk, Love, Gains, Relationships, chances, Stephen King Quotes
“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
— Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne
Tagged: Bitch, Why Men Love Bitches, Woman, Stephen King
“You know what talent is? The curse of expectation.”
— Stephen King, The Mist
Tagged: Expectation, Talent, Life Quotes, Curse
“If you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Writing, Career, How to be a writer
“Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: first lines of books
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel
Tagged: Sarcasm, defense, Insecure, fragile
“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel
Tagged: procrastination, Research, Education
“The past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Tagged: Past, definition, present
“Writing is seduction.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“A person can’t change all at once.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Change
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
— Stephen King, The Green Mile
Tagged: Time Keeping, Time's Up, Time, Life, Hourglass, Stephen King Quotes
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”
— Stephen King, Duma Key: A Novel
Tagged: Talent, Hard Work, Quit, Stephen King Quotes, Self Worth
“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
— Stephen King, Needful Things
Tagged: creepy, devil, satan, sweet, voice
“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
— Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
Tagged: creepy, dark, Darkness, bright, Day, daylight
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Books, Reading, Magic
“Annie Wilkes, the nurse who holds Paul Sheldon prisoner in 'Misery', may seem psychotic to us, but it's important to remember that she seems perfectly sane and reasonable to herself -- heroic, in fact, a beleaguered woman trying to survive in a hostile world filled with cockadoodie brats. ”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Why people are such dicks
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel
Tagged: Life, influence, humanity
“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel
Tagged: Research, procrastination, Education, School, College
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Stephen King, Writing Tips From Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’
Tagged: Writing, Fear, Inspirational, Courage, Wisdom
“It's the people who aren't scared who die young.”
— Stephen King, Thinner
Tagged: Fear, Die, Death, Horror Stories
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
— Stephen King, Horror, Why things scare us,
“This is what happened.”
— Stephen King, The Mist
Tagged: first lines of books
“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Tagged: Fear, Life Quotes, Stephen King
“Time's the thief of memory.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Tagged: Time, Memory, Thief
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
— Stephen King, It
Tagged: creepy, spooky, fiction, Truth, Lie
“Stephen King once wrote: 'Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away.. and in the end.. there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometime we lose them there again.'”
— Stephen King, One Tree Hill Episode 219
Tagged: One Tree Hill Quotes, One Tree Hill
“She suddenly realized she was sitting in an apartment by herself late at night, eating an apple and watching a movie on TV that she cared nothing about, and doing it all because it was easier than thinking, thinking was so boring really, when all you had to think about was yourself and your lost love.”
— Stephen King, The Dead Zone
Tagged: Memories, Thinking, Boring
“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
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