3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Само враговете казват истината. Приятелите и любовниците лъжат неуморно, оплетени в мрежата на дълга.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, working for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed, and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

PRECOGNITION, TELEPATHY, BULLSHIT! EAT MY DONG, YOU EXTRASENSORY TURKEY!