3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create—God help you if you do, God help you if you can—don’t you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts.

But I doubt if this is God's doing. I suspect He'll keep right out of it as a consequence.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Everybody has some part of their character that is admirable. I'm sure that at one time Theodore Bundy helped an old lady across the street—of course he probably raped and murdered her on the other side—but, that's what I'm talking about, the yin and the yang of it.

They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows.

He supposed that if he were a young female hitchhiker, he might ask a question or two himself before hopping willy-nilly into someone's car or truck. It might not help, but it sure couldn't hurt. Because once you were out in the desert, anything could happen to you.

The cop turned his head then. This face, pinkish with the sun when he had stopped them, had gone pale. His eyes were very large, seeming to bulge out of his face like marbles. He had bitten his lip, like a man trying to suppress some monstrous rage, and blood ran down his chin in a thin stream.

But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall.

I want to make you laugh or cry when you read a story . . .or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.