3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Few things are as lovely as having an uninterrupted hour with a good book'.

On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

Something that sounded like an insect droned past Ralph’s ear. He had an idea it was a .45-caliber bug. Better hurry up, sweetheart, Carolyn advised. When bullets hit you on this level they kill you, remember?

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story...when you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

If you start to freak out at the sight of such unmapped territory (unmapped by you, at least), just remind yourself that rocks explode, Jane transmits, mountains float, and plums deify. Grammar is not just a pain in the ass; it's the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.