Explore Quotes by Stephen King

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Writing is seduction.

If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.