3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

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.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

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

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Free, free, free... necromancer, I love you.

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.