3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

You didn’t copy this one?” she asked when she had finished. I said no, I hadn’t. she said it was good enough to be in a book. Nothing anyone has said to me since has made me feel any happier.

A writer who won’t take moral responsibility may be a good writer, but he’s a shitty human being in my book.- (Salem's lot deleted scenes)

To us, Stu. May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain.

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds . . . never in their hearts.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

The boy who became a man progressed from darkness and unlearning to light and responsibility.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

...In a way, though, I’m almost relieved.’ ‘Relieved? Why?’ ‘Because I thought he was going to tell us that he killed her himself. For his damned Tower.’ Susannah looked squarely into his eyes. ‘But he thinks that’s what he did. Don’t you understand that?