3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

I don’t take notes; I don’t outline, I don’t do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can’t sell it as caviar.

People hurt the ones they love. That’s how it is all around the world.

If you can’t laugh when things go bad – laugh and put on a little carnival – then you’re either dead or wishing you were.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I’m outside, writing, I’m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

Constant reading will pull you into a place – a mind-set, if you like the phrase – where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

Is he a Catholic?” “He is now,” Ben said somberly.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark.

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