3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of the soldier back up here again.'I like the birdbath better, Daddy,' Stan said.Mr Uris ruffled his hair. 'Me too, son,' he said. 'More baths and less bullets, that's my motto.

I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?

I kissed her, just a gentle brush of my lips across hers. It was like swallowing a tiny drop of something incredibly sweet.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

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

Tied to my reading lamp was a single balloon. Filled with helium, it floated in a morning sunray which slanted in through one of the high windows.On it was a picture of my face, the eyes gone, blood running down from the ragged sockets, a scream distorting the mouth on the balloon's thin and bulging rubber skin.I looked at it and I screamed.

...There’s this ancient arcane ritual called reading books. You may have heard of it.