Stephen King Quotes

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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

This is not a bad life.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.