660 Quotes About Stephen-king

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.

Beyond the reach of human range, a drop of hell, a touch of strange

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.

Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill.

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?