Stephen King Quotes

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

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

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.’

This is not a bad life.

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

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

In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.