Stephen King Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Truth

• I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Truth

• Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Reading

• When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Humor

• Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

  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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