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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A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

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la buena literatura podía ser embriagadora sin renunciar al hilo conductor de las ideas.

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I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affair...

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For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.

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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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To write is human, to edit is divine.

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Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

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...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketba...

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When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

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I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

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In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tieb...

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The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.

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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

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Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

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You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.

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Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when every...

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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, an...

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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