3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this,' even when you know you can't.

Is there any phrase more ominous than 'you need to see exactly what you've done'?

Clear communication between selves the surface self and the deep self is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

It's only kids in high school who are convinced they're never going to change. There's always going to be a pep rally and there's always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in the future.

Sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end… and knowing there's so much worth saving.

I've found that any day's routine interruptions and distractions don't much hurt a work, in progress and may actually help it in some ways. It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.