Stephen King quotes

Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
- Stephen King

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
- Stephen King

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
- Stephen King

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

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
- Stephen King

God grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the tenacity to change what I may, and the good luck not to fuck up too often.
- Stephen King

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
- Stephen King

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

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.
- Stephen King

Time's the thief of memory.
- Stephen King

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

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
- Stephen King

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

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
- Stephen King

I work until beer o'clock.
- 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

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
- Stephen King

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.”
- Stephen King

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