Famous Quotes

Stephen King

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." 

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."

"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger."

"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."

"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."

"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."

"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."

"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."

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

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too."

"Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache."

"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"Either get busy living or get busy dying."

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."