3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Das Salz, das man nimmt, ist das Salz, für das man zahlen muss, das kann euch hierzulande jeder sagen.

Everlynne. Die würde noch dem Teufel ins Gesicht spucken. Und nähme er sie mit sich hinunter nach Nis, würde sie binnen kurzer Zeit den Laden übernehmen.

Es war eine schöne Zeit, aber wie wir wissen – aus Geschichten und aus dem Leben –, dauern schöne Zeiten nie lange an.

But he still lingered for a moment, as if waiting for the wind to take a hand and perhaps gust him down to his car.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.

But in the end, someone always has to have his or her neck popped, as you so quaintly put it. The people demand it, sooner or later, if there isn't a turncoat, the people make one.

Cats were weird.

I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.