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 can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

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Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´ The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´ ´Well,´ Roland said, ´that's a start.�...

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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

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The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

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The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other wor...

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And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

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Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a questi...

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In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter arrives, hovers, drops a rope ladder. the man leaning out of the helicopter's door shouts. Guy on top of burning building r...

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There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think...

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I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

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By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

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When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

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I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, t...

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Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.

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It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.

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Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross ...

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

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May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

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When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought

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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