3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Chiariamo subito un punto, d’accordo? Non esistono un Magazzino delle Idee, un Supermercato delle Storie o un’Isola dei Bestseller Sepolti. Le buone trovate nascono quasi letteralmente dal nulla, piovendovi in testa da un cielo all’apparenza limpido: due pensieri in precedenza disgiunti si uniscono, creando qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Il vostro compito non è mettervi a caccia di certe illuminazioni, ma saperle riconoscere quando si presentano.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.