Quotes by Stephen King

About Stephen King:

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and six non-fiction books. He has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
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You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the K...

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My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

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It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

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...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the strands of a spiderweb.

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Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

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Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.

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Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

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I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or luck...

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She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

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Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

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Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

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Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

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Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

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In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

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His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

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The last good time always comes

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God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

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The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Church of Whatever it Takes, got a brand-new heart whil...

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Author Bio

  • NameStephen King
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornSeptember 21, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Writer; Novelist; Teacher; Director
  • WorksCarrie; 'Salem's Lot; The Shining; The Stand; Misery; It; The Dark Tower
  • AwardsNational Book Award; Bram Stoker Award