3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty.

It was, he supossed, one of the adventages of having married a doctor- you could shove the kid at your husband whenever the kid seemed to be dying.

The adult was Eric "Rusty" Everett, thirty-seven, a physician's assistant working with Dr. Ron Haskell, whom Rusty often thought of as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Because, Rusty would have explained, he so often remains behind the curtain while I do the work.

Deus trabalhava com discrição, utilizando meios que fossem do Seu agrado. Agradara-Lhe deixar que os Filhos de Israel suassem e se vergassem ao peso do jugo egípcio durante gerações. Agradara-Lhe enviar José para a escravidão, seu belo capote multicolorido rasgado rudemente de suas costas. Agradara-Lhe permitir que Jó recebesse a visita de cem pragas, como fora do Seu agrado permitir que Seu único Filho fosse pendurado a uma cruz com uma piada de mau gosto escrita sobre Sua cabeça.

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.