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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Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

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The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

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Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the se...

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Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

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Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

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He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business de...

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What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

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Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

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Good books are for consideration after, too.

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A change is as good as a rest.

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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

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Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

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Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

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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