The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
STEPHEN KINGThe world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
STEPHEN KINGAll you need to do is hold on tight and believe.
STEPHEN KINGTo write is human, to edit is divine.
STEPHEN KINGThe mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
STEPHEN KINGOnly enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KINGHer body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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 KINGDescription begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KINGThere is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
STEPHEN KINGIt was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
STEPHEN KINGIf the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
STEPHEN KINGWhen all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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 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 KINGMonsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KINGYou want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
STEPHEN KING