Stephen King Quotes

Most popular Stephen King Quotes

Writing is seduction. - Stephen King quote.
Writing is seduction.

writing

When facts speak, the wise man listens. - Stephen King quote.
When facts speak, the wise man listens.
— Stephen King The Wind through the Keyhole

facts

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain. - Stephen King quote.
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.
— Stephen King Duma Key

pain

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on. - Stephen King quote.
Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on.
— Stephen King Bag of Bones: A Novel

humor

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. - Stephen King quote.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
— Stephen King Hearts in Atlantis

books

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go. - Stephen King quote.
A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.
— Stephen King
Talent is never static.  It's always growing or dying. - Stephen King quote.
Talent is never static.  It's always growing or dying.
— Stephen King Entertainment Weekly

talent

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. - Stephen King quote.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
— Stephen King Needful Things

trust

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. - Stephen King quote.
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
— Stephen King Duma Key: A Novel

talent

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. - Stephen King quote.
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

language

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation. - Stephen King quote.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
— Stephen King Different Seasons

writing

Life isn't a support-system for art.  It's the other way around. - Stephen King quote.
Life isn't a support-system for art.  It's the other way around.

art

Apple pie without a piece of cheese is like a smooch without a squeeze. - Stephen King quote.
Apple pie without a piece of cheese is like a smooch without a squeeze.
— Stephen King Firestarter

cheese

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. - Stephen King quote.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
— Stephen King Different Seasons

communication

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. - Stephen King quote.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

parts of speech

Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life. - Stephen King quote.
Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.
— Stephen King Blaze

stupidity

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you. - Stephen King quote.
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.
— Stephen King in The New Yorker

teaching

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King quote.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
— Stephen King Hearts in Atlantis

laughter

Most of them are plain fiction for plain folks, the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and a large fries from McDonalds. - Stephen King quote.
Most of them are plain fiction for plain folks, the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and a large fries from McDonalds.
— Stephen King Discovering Stephen King
Mr. Levin is the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels; he makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in drugstores. - Stephen King quote.
Mr. Levin is the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels; he makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in drugstores.
— Stephen King The Independent
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence.  They're a way of relieving pressure. - Stephen King quote.
I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence.  They're a way of relieving pressure.
— Stephen King Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers

dreams (during sleep)

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 quote.
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 Danse Macabre

talent discipline

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side.  A bell jingled overhead.  The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. - Stephen King quote.
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side.  A bell jingled overhead.  The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
— Stephen King The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower III

bookstore

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. - Stephen King quote.
Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
— Stephen King Danse Macabre

talent

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over.  Getting happy, okay?  Getting happy. - Stephen King quote.
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over.  Getting happy, okay?  Getting happy.

writing