Best Stephen King Quotes

[blunthead]

I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend.

[TriggerHappy]

Thanks for the correction, John. I did have a suspicion it wasn't exactly how it went.

My favorite quote is pretty long, and it's by Paul Sheldon, to boot

"It always look dat way, Boss Ian," Hezekiah said. "No matter how you look at her, she seem like she be lookin' at you. I doan know if it be true, but the Bourkas, dey say even when you get behin' her, the goddess, she seem to be lookin' at you."
"But she is, after all, only a piece of stone," Ian remonstrated.
"Yes, Boss Ian," Hezekiah agreed. "Dat what give her her powah."

[omm poppa mow mow]

"They stared at each other uneasily and bunched closer together like small boys in a lightning storm or cows in a blizzard. There was a raw redness in that swelling sound of Crowd. A hunger that was numbing. Garraty had a vivid and scary image of the great god Crowd clawing its way out of the Augusta basin on scarlet spider-legs and devouring them all alive."
— Stephen King (The Long Walk)

[Srbo]

I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

( The Green Mile )

[JellybeanJay]

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to - Delores Claiborne

[randallFlaggfan1]

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

-On Writing

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and hollering him home, and her heart turned sick with the thought of the years ahead and she wondered what good love was if it came to this, to even ten seconds of feeling like this."

- Lisey's Story

[Haunted]

-- Possibly the funniest quote

Not only funneee BUT so true, so true!! I felt vindicated when I read it--thought I was all alone in this world thinking that that was the gol darndest dumbas**ed flick I had ever seen in my life!!!

[johnski]

Stephen King is a craftsman with words, He knows how they should be placed, A true genious in the litery world

[Wayne C. Rogers]

My two favorite quotes come from The Shawshank Redemption: "Get busy living, or get busy dying" and "Hope is a good thing, perhaps the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Those two quotes kept me from giving up when I was in the hospital and nearly died. In fact, I drove the nurses crazy with quotes for Shawshank.