Best Stephen King Quotes

[Hicks]

What came to my mind is something Stephen said in an interview. He actually quoted his mother, what she had said about him loving to tell stories:

"You're a people-pleaser, Stephen. It's good thing you're a boy, or you'd always be pregnant."

[blunthead]

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

[Becks19]

"The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there..."
— Stephen King

"Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone."
— Stephen King

[psj77]

Parkins smiled and moved away. "Good enough. I doubt like hell that it's a signed confession to anything."

Ben smiled back. "Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything."

'Salem's Lot

[blunthead]

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.

[Becks19]

"I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much."
— Stephen King (The Bachman Books)

[Todevod]

This line from the end of DT7 brought me to tears-

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"I come in the name of Jake Chambers, he of New York, whom I call my own true son!" -Roland of Gilead

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." -Sai King

[Laymonking]

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

[Martianette]

From The Stand (also my favorite SK novel):

(Spoken by Frannie Goldsmith):
"They're your clothes too, Mr. Stuart Redman. You may be a Founding Father and all that, but you still leave an occasional skidmark in your underdrawers."

And I also love Stu's reply:
"That's crude, darlin."

[amanda1812]

When Billy Halleck (Thinner) is travelling in a taxi on a hot day with a smelly driver he thinks "He smells like ten pounds of **** in a five pound bag"