Stephen King

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Some things were better lost than found.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.