The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
STEPHEN KINGThe more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
STEPHEN KINGAlone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
STEPHEN KINGFiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KINGLove isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
STEPHEN KINGSometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
STEPHEN KINGHearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
STEPHEN KINGI 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.
STEPHEN KINGAnything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
STEPHEN KINGTalent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
STEPHEN KINGHumor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
STEPHEN KINGA library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
STEPHEN KINGBooks 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 KINGThe only religions I don’t like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
STEPHEN KINGReading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
STEPHEN KINGFEAR stands for face everything and recover.
STEPHEN KINGWrite with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
STEPHEN KING