“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.” ― Stephen King “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” ― Stephen King “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.” ― Stephen King “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.” ― Stephen King, Night Shift “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ― Stephen King | “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” ― Stephen King “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.” ― Stephen King “There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.” ― Stephen King | “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ― Stephen King “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ― Stephen King “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” ― Stephen King “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.” ― Stephen King “A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.” ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew “A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.” ― Stephen King “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” ― Stephen King, On Writing |