3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Denigrating free will by confusing it with ka was worse than blasphemy; it was tiresome and stupid.

He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.

This was what Roland would do – go on until someone made him stop, and then a few yards further still if he could.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

There were no thunderstorms on the night it came (his) turn to walk the Green Mile. It was seasonably cold for those parts at that time of year, in the thirties, I'd guess, and a million stars spilled across used up, picked out fields where frost glittered on fenceposts and glowed like diamonds on the dry skeletons of July's corn.

The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.

Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.