Stephen King Quotes

• Without story books is like a person with no soul.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Books

• He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Inspirational

• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Living, Busy

• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, “There’s just something about you that pisses me off.”

  Stephen King

  Topics in Family, God, Humor, Life, Religion

• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Truth, Wisdom

• Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Writing

• And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Inspirational

• Their lives had another forty seconds to run.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Death

• If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

  Stephen King

  Topics in Inspirational

• For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Understanding

• Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Work

• Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, ‘Man, I’d really like to go out with her.’ But you can’t. At least not until the old idea is finished.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Work

• You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Life
• 

  Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vampire, Horror, Word

• No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Life

• Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

Stephen King (132)

Birth:	21st September, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Producer, Screenwriter, Television Producer, Writer

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