Stephen King Quotes

"Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force."

"Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around."

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

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

"Creative people have a hard time knowing when to stop... Talent is a runaway horse."

"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

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

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose."

"A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger."

"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

"There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids."

"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"When all else fails, give up and go to the library."

"Writing isn't about making money... it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well."

"Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure."

"The most important things are the hardest to say."

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."

"If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered."

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell."

"We lie best when we lie to ourselves."

"And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unblinking sanity."

"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."

"Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."