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Stephen King Quotes

Total quotes: 195
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: Inspirational, Success, Self-motivation, positive-thinking
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: Writing as an Expression, Writing Quotes, Wordsmith, Literary Artisan
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: writer, Read, write
“It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.”
— Stephen King, Rose Madder
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Misery
“I’m not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go, Failed Relationship
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”
— Stephen King, The Body
Tagged: Love (The Concept), Love, Metaphors
“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
— Stephen King, Insomnia
Tagged: Life, Contentment, Excitement Of Life, Ups and Downs
“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Letting Go, Pain, Holding On
“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps...Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Love, romance, First Love, Love and Pain
“It’s funny how when you were a kid, a day could last forever. Then you grow up, and all these years just seemed like a blink.”
— Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis
Tagged: Growing Up, Childhood Memories, Memories in the Past, nostalgic
“Wandering’s the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.”
— Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
Tagged: wandering, Explore
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
— Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Gratitude
“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
Tagged: Love, Romantic, realist
“I didn't write them for money; I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them. I have a marketable obsession. There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky.”
— Stephen King, Night Shift
Tagged: Horror, Writing, How to be a writer, Money, Quote of the Moment
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mecedes
Tagged: kindness, Compassion, good deeds
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”
— Stephen King, Salem's Lot
Tagged: Serenity, Tenacity, Mess Up, God, Stephen King Quotes
“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
Tagged: Honesty, Truth, tell the truth, Decisions, Right thing
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
— Stephen King, Awaken
“I know that the thing under my bed doesn’t exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won’t grab my ankle.”
— Stephen King, Night Shift
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
— Stephen King, Carrie
Tagged: Sadness, True Love, Pain
“Sometimes...real love is silent as well as blind.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Love, real love, silence in love, blindness in love
“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.”
— Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
Tagged: Expectations, Disappointment, Contentment
“People can be stunningly unobservant.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel
Tagged: People, Unobservant, unobservant people, missing out things, missing out details
“I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.”
— Stephen King, The Adirondack Dreamer: Stephen King and I Agree
Tagged: Being A Teenager
“That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
Tagged: History, Past, Past Pain, history's pain, Memories
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Past, Past Days, Memories, telling stories about the past, History, fiction
“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re…lost.”
— Stephen King, Joyland
Tagged: Life Challenges, Human Existence
“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”
— Stephen King, Needful Things: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Powerful force, Strong, emotions, Unforgiving
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“Maybe there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that’s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
— Stephen King, It: A Novel
Tagged: Friendships, Friends, Person, Imperfection, Companion
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
— Stephen King, The Green Mile
Tagged: Stephen King Quotes, Pain, Family, Scars
“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”
— Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
Tagged: Wants And Needs, Good and Bad, Good Vs Evil, Toxic Relationships
“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Tagged: Lonely, Alone
“The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Tagged: first lines of books
“Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.”
— Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
Tagged: Relationships, Fighting, arguments
“But it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Stephen King, On Writing, Writing Tips
“It always comes down to two choices; Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Living, Dying, Choices, Decisions
“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.”
— Stephen King, Revival
Tagged: Hope, Life, Living
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