3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

You play the game to the end. That’s how it works; play to the end.

Vi vet aldrig vems liv vi påverkar, eller när, eller varför. I varje fall inte förrän framtiden slukar nuet. Vi vet det när det är för sent.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

What’s behind the door or lurking at the top of the stairs is never as frightening as the door or the staircase itself.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back — all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around — and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?

I’ll try, Aunt Evvie.”“Yes—I know you will. Trying—that’s built into you, too.” Aunt Evvielooked her over closely. “You were a fair child, and a likely child, although youweren’t ever a lucky child. Well, luck is for fools. It’s all they have to hope for,poor devils. It strikes me that you are still likely and fair, and that’s theimportant thing. I think you’ll make out.

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.